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COPYRIGHTED 1914 

BY 

ARTHUR NEIL RHODES 




A. N. RHODES 



Women should have a right to record their opin- 
ions the same as men in all branches of govern- 
ment affairs and be on equal basis with men, allow- 
ing proficiency and development in various chan- 
nels to regulate the franchise of the country in 
general, allowing educational freedom to exist in 
all branches of government affairs. 



CONTENTS 



Chapter Page 

1 The Discussion of Questions 9 

2 Can We Turn a Deaf Ear? 12 

3 Can a Sister Help a Sister? 15 

4 The Mother of a Family 19 

5 The Duty of the Male Sex 22 

6 Men Should Protect Women 25 

7 Woman as a Helpmate for Man 27 

8 A Vision of Strange Nature 31 

9 Woman and Laws 34 

10 Young Ladies and Matrimony 36 

11 The Young Married Couple 43 

12 That Little Thought 45 

13 Vanity 48 

14 Dollar Chasers 51 

15 Woman's Suffrage Movement 54 

16 Woman Suffrage — A Peep Into the Future 56 

17 Time and Folly 60 

18 Woman's Rights 64 

19 Giant Intemperance 66 

20 Wives, Mothers and Sisters 71 

21 Classifying Our Lives 74 

22 What Sights Can We See in This Enlightened Age? 76 

23 A Home and Family of Highest Type 79 

24 Allowing Our Minds Liberty 81 

25 Are You Opposed To Equal Rights? 83 

26 Men in Favor of Woman's Rights 86 

27 Factory and Working Girls 89 

28 Divorces — Some of ThEir Causes 92 

29 Starting Out on the Road of Life 96 

30 Contentment of Mind 99 

31 Promote Our Ways 101 

32 The Development of Man 104 

33 What Is Thought? 106 

34 Drink and Drunkeness 107 

35 The Leading Thought of the Time as a Guide to 

Mankind 110 



Chapter Page 

36 Have Confidence in Yourself and Develop Youe 

Ability 112 

37 Energy Wasted By Not Concentrating Faculties .... 113 

38 Good and Bad Luck Not Controlled By Management 115 

39 Concentration of Forces and Faculties as a Busi- 

ness Regulator 117 

40 The High Development of Acquisitiveness 118 

41 Inherited V/ealth — Not Proof of Superior Ability. . 119 

42 The Study of Human Nature as a Help in Business . 120 

43 Procrastination the Thief of Time 122 

44 Business Successes Along the Line of Phrenology 

as a Guide 124 

45 Caution — To Use It as in Business Transactions... 126 

46 Will Power of Character as a Predominating Force 

of Ambition , 127 

47 A Duel Between Energy and Laziness 129 

48 How to Select a Companion Along the Line of 

Matrimony 131 

49 Brains as a Working Capital 133 

50 Opportunity — A Discussion of Personal Welfare. . . . 135 

51 The Meaning of Home 138 

52 Women Strikers , , ; . 141 

53 Dollars and Dimes 144 

54 Why Not Plant a Life Garden 147 

55 Nature Springtime 151 

56 What Will Become of Me? 153 

57 June Time 156 

58 Good Manners and Good Thoughts 158 

59 Courtesy and Patience 161 

1 The Little Green Colored Saloon " 164 

2 Dougherty's Flight 169 

3 Dennis McCarty's Business 170 

4 McCall and DeLee 173 

5 Little Lucile 179 

6 John McCall and Joe DeLee 184 

7 Dorris Dale 186 

8 Dorris on Her Way Home 189 

9 Lucile Returns Home 192 

10 Marriage of Dorris and Joe DeLee t 195 

11 McCarty and Oscar Livingston 197 

12 Lucile Harvey's Marriage 199 



CHAPTER I. 

IN THE DISCUSSION OF QUESTIONS. 

In the discussion of questions there is none that 
comes home so closely to us as the universal suf- 
frage of our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. 
They form our home circle. On them we rely in 
times of trial, sickness and tribulation. To them 
we go for comfort and advice. And yet we have 
never had the moral courage to make them our 
civic equals. We seem to be bound by that old 
barbarous idea which made woman our inferior 
being in many positions of life. This old teaching 
has been so firmly rooted in our lives that we do 
not realize the injustice and absurdity of its exis- 
tence among our enlightened people. There was 
an excuse for our forefathers keeping women in 
the background, for in their day the great career 
for man was war. With him it was the real busi- 
ness of his life. But not so now. We claim that 
all men are created equal; that our pursuits are the 
pursuits of peace; that our fair women are just as 
talented, just as keen in perception, and just as 
capable of government as we ourselves. But why 
this shrinking from the gift of political rights to 
our equals? Why do we hesitate to say to our 
wives and daughters, come with us to the place of 
election. Have we no faith in their honesty of 
purpose, their integrity of character, their capabil- 



ity of action? Is this polling place not fit for the 
society of ladies? Now, we know woman is hon- 
est and capable. We know it from experience. 
She has been faithful from infancy to the grave. 
No place that is fit for a gentleman is unfit for a 
lady. Men may be given a license to do what they 
would scorn in a woman, but the deed is no freer 
from stain in one sex than in the other. We often 
hear that the polling booth is no place for a wom- 
an. It is a place where all classes of men congre- 
gate, and she might be insulted. Will a man insult 
a lady when she is in her proper place? Do men 
insult women in the hotels, in the depots, in the 
street cars, the public street, at public demonstra- 
tions in an election hall? Such assertions are ar- 
rant nonsence. Either you share the bigoted sen- 
timent that woman's sphere is home exclusively or 
else you are ashamed to show your real belief in 
politics. That woman is capable of controlling 
even nations is in evidence by the present and the 
past. 

England's queen has given the most peaceful 
and prosperous reign in the whole history of Great 
Britain. The most daring deeds of the past are 
written by woman's courage and faith. Consider 
the questions of uprightness and honor. Woman is 
not open to bribery when her family is in danger. 
Her love conquers all ambitions, and she stands a 
superior being in the sight of God and man. I can 
plainly see the reason why man is opposed to 
Equal Suffrage. Man does not want to be dis- 
turbed in his career of selfishness. He desires to 

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have no one to dictate in the great field of drink. 
The liquor sellers are opposed. They see the hand- 
writing on the wall : ' ' Thus far shalt thou go and 
no farther.' ' They know the vote of woman is a 
protection to home, family and friends. The hand 
of woman will dash aside the cup of the inebriate, 
and prevent the downfall of her boy. They know 
that when woman votes she will scourge the saloon 
keepers, as did Christ the money-changers from 
the church of God. They know that the wives and 
mothers will no longer remain idle and see their 
loved ones go down in shame and ruin. 

This is why woman is not granted equality with 
man. It is Satan who uses man's propensities to 
fight his battles. 



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CHAPTEE II. 

CAN WE TURN A DEAF EAR? 

Can we turn a deaf ear to the wishes of the fem- 
inine class? They that hath been our helpmate 
from the foundation of time, in all our successful 
careers. They that have sacrificed their lives in 
many ways, they that have grasped the spark of 
education and turned it into a raging flame, in 
broadcast extention. They that have helped to 
tread the wild pathways that have broadened into 
great and grand cities. They are the guardian 
angels that have traveled by the side of man, cheer- 
ing him in difficulties, administering kindness, use- 
fulness and love. She has always been his compan- 
ion. On the gloomy battlefield she has taken an 
active part in caring for the wounded, sharing 
their sorrows and also sharing their joys, cheering 
and giving that encouragement that has caused 
their soul to shake with that emotional thought of 
happiness. She has rocked the cradle of the na- 
tion and her emotional thoughts of ]ove and kind- 
ness and libertv have been guide-posts to human- 
ity. 

Women have pushed onward with that never 
tiring work of educational pursuits, covering 
every pursuit in education they are allowed to pur- 
sue. They are the foremost workers in our chris- 

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tian societies of this present age. They are the 
class that are always ready to help promote any- 
thing of a pure and noble nature. She has ad- 
vanced in educational ways from the dark ages of 
history, to the present enlightened age. Something 
wonderful, under certain conditions not being al- 
lowed to come to the first ranks of education in all 
branches of civilization. She has been kept down 
by tyranical views of the male sex, allowed to ad- 
vance only in certain channels or pursuits, the men 
dictating how far they shall advance and in what 
pursuit they shall follow. Their pursuits and ad- 
vancements should be regulated by their ability 
or proficiency in any branch of industrial educa- 
tion or progress. Lifting higher the morals of civ- 
ilization, enjoying the word of liberty in all its 
meaning. At present the word liberty means only 
a partial liberty to women. It means they can 
have liberty as far as man shall dictate, regardless 
of their ability. Women should be allowed to de- 
velop into higher thoughts of noble pursuits. Al- 
low them to put their thoughts into action in poli- 
tical careers. Throw aside that mask of freedom, 
throw aside that prejudice of political careers, so 
they can look on the flag of stars and stripes as a 
glorious freedom to all in politics and show the 
highest freedom of any nation in the civilized 
world. 

We do not dictate this writing to be classified 
as reformers. We don't believe in reforming, we 
believe in adjusting things and placing conditions 
where they should be placed. We believe in mak- 

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ing it a free country regardless of money power or 
a class of selfish individuals that have narrowed 
their belief that men alone should make our laws 
and enforce them. We believe that right should 
be the watchword of all undertakings of justice. 
We believe the six million of women that are wage 
earners of the United States, working for an aver- 
age of six dollars per week salary should have a 
chance to vote and try and better their conditions. 
T think that Miss Margaret Gardner, assistant 
prosecuting attorney of Los Angeles, California, 
handling all cases involving women defendants, is 
setting a good example of the liberty that belongs 
to women in this broad and liberty loving country. 
We heard some one say conditions were the cause 
of women not being allowed to vote on all political 
issues. All the conditions we can see, are, they are 
not given their political freedom to become voting 
citizens, which they are justly entitled to. 



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CHAPTER III. 

CAN A SISTER HELP A SISTER? 

What can a sister do for a sister? Help to ele- 
vate her mind, help to show her the necessity of 
sisters uniting in action and thought in the cause 
they are interested in, namely, Equal Suffrage. Do 
you think the men as a rule will help and work for 
your welfare; he who has been at the head of the 
government and all other concerns for years! I 
say, no, as a general rule. He don 't think a woman 
had ought to have any voice in making laws or en- 
forcing them, but that she should keep right along 
in the same old routine of work, regardless of her 
educational views. Some of the men think her do- 
mestic happiness depends on a life of depression, 
a life not to be on an equal basis with theirs. The 
men must dictate their pursuit of life regardless of 
their thoughts. They are not supposed to elevate 
their thoughts to something higher in develop- 
ment. 

Men are the particular persons that set the pace 
for women. They allow them to go just so high in 
development in this so-called educational world. 
T thing educational power should set the pace of 
humanity. It is not the men killed on battlefields; 
it is not the suffering of humanity to bring about 
certain conditions that counts; it is to settle ques- 
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tions arbitrarily and peacefully that shows the 
highest educational views of civilization. We 
look on humanity vastly different at the present 
time. Years ago the physical strength of men was 
looked upon as a safeguard to humanity in defend- 
ing them, but at present education is the guide 
that leads the world. The time is fast approach- 
ing when all battles will be fought arbitrarily. 
With nations and countries education will be the 
leading weapon of war. All disputes will be set- 
tled, all difficulties will be adjusted, by educational 
ways. Men, do you want a companion of life to 
journey with you on every line and channel of life, 
your equals, or do you want a companion inferior 
to your educational views, a companion that has 
not developed into the highest type of civilization. 
Are you in favor of advancement of education and 
civilization? If you are in favor of the highest 
type of education and enlightenment, then throw 
aside that prejudice of woman holding political 
positions. 

If they are proficient in development of educa- 
tion, encourage their station in life along the line 
of Educational pursuits. Their voice in the gov- 
ernment affairs would mean something to their 
class that has been ignored on account of their 
helpless position to make laws. 

Women no longer are asking for their rights as 
free born citizens to act on all questions of vital 
importance to them in their homes, but they de- 
mand them. They have their families and homes 
that need some attention along the line of intem- 

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perance and vice. These questions interest the 
real woman of education. She has progressive 
ideas, she values life above money, she values 
everything that is good and true above money. 
The real woman has educated herself to be broad- 
minded in her views. 

Looking on all sides of life she can judge the 
cause and effects of different pursuits of life. The 
political vote of the wives will no doubt bring new 
problems into consideration. It will have a ten- 
dency to develop the mutual welfare of the home. 
It will cause more discussions in the home circles. 
Political discussion if carried on in harmony in 
the home, would be elevating in educational views 
and enlightenment. 

For if husband and wife were on ideal terms 
with one another, as they should be in almost 
every case, there would be practically no differ- 
ence, only in number of votes cast. Think of the 
thousands of girls and women working in factories 
and stores, in fact, in all channels of business. 
They never have a chance to represent' themselves 
or their interest in personal welfare. They never 
have a chance to vote on a question if for their in- 
terest. They are obliged to look on and see our 
laws made by a dominating power of men. Their 
representation in number a great deal smaller than 
the women. Women develop that will power to 
stand together in concentration of thought, stand 
together in one body in every just cause to gain 
the place you are entitled to, stand together to up- 
hold all rights of personal interests and denounce 

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all interests that infringe on yonr personal liber- 
ties as a citizen. The dawn of the day is approach- 
ing rapidly when the women will realize their ef- 
forts have not been in vain. Their efforts to dem- 
onstrate that they are a free class of people, 
worthy to be looked to as having equal rights as 
freeborn citizens to make laws and have them 
placed upon the statute books, that will create a 
reform wave that will reach from east to west 
causing the uplifting of humanity, tearing down 
the constructing element of vice, throwing aside 
all unfit practices and substituting in their place, 
honor and respect to one another that we may live 
in harmony with great progressive realities of jus- 
tice and good will to all. 



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CHAPTEK IV. 

THE MOTHER OF A FAMILY. 

The mother of a family, the most beautiful pic- 
ture of the highest type of nature educating her 
children along the lines of good true citizenship, 
ought to have the right to vote. As a citizen de- 
veloping herself in the art of law-making she could 
train her boys and girls to become elevated in 
thought and in action to become better citizens. 
Their home could at times become a home of edu- 
cational pleasure. I think that would be a plea- 
sure to all classes of young men and women. 

She could educate her children in the laws of 
our country and have them study new and better 
laws to be made from time to time. This would 
certainly elevate the class of citizens of this coun- 
try. If educated, they would take more interest in 
our laws and our government and give women a 
chance to wear the golden spurs if she justly wins 
them. The first spark of education starts from the 
cradle. The first faculties are feeling and intellect. 

Think of the mothers of today. If their child 
should ask them a question pertaining to political 
careers they could not answer them. Also think of 
the men that could not answer them. Had they 
been trained from childhood they no doubt could 
have given a correct answer. You might say poli- 

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tics is a game. The question is, ought it to be a 
game? If it is a game let us put some science in 
the game and make it not merely a money scheme. 
This question of woman's rights is not a question 
of superiority, it is a question of justice. 

It is an act of intelligence to lift up and develop 
something which through our ignorance and self- 
ishness we have neglected. Our women do not be- 
lieve in gaining the rights they are entitled to by 
resorting to anything but the best kind of educa- 
tional ways. They don't believe in trying to lower 
their brothers standard of moral principals. They 
want to help him if they can along the line of mor- 
als. They want to be recognized as a class of citi- 
zens and not as slaves. The United States gives 
woman a right to homestead land under the home- 
stead laws, also gives them a right to draw land at 
a land drawing. 

After acquiring land I think they ought to have 
a right to vote and help make laws to benefit their 
interests as citizens of this great and glorious, free 
country. Abraham Lincoln was the leading in- 
strument in freeing the negro slaves of the south, 
making voting citizens of them whether they were 
property owners or not. 

Think of the many women property owners. 
Mothers, wives and daughters who are landowners 
but cannot vote for their own welfare and interest. 
Do you call that freedom? It seems to be a mock- 
ery of the word freedom. Shall our flag of stars 
and stripes wave over a free country in sincerity 
or shall it be in mockery of women's right to de- 

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velop into the highest type of civilization and rep- 
resent themselves in any honorable line of busi- 
ness? There are plenty of women working in the 
sweat shops today. If they had a chance to devel- 
op in the right channel of life, the channel God 
has given them talent to pursue, they would be a 
shining star to humanity and a blessing to all, 
cheering those sisters who need a kind word to 
fight the battles of life in a moral way where vice 
and dishonor is surrounding her very existence. 
Oh sisters ! you whom God has given a better place 
in life and blessed in many ways, get busy and help 
your sisters. Help her to understand that life is 
what we make of it. Strengthen their ambitions 
for what is good and pure. 



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CHAPTER V. 

THE DUTY OF THE MALE SEX. 

It is the duty of every enlightened man to en- 
courage the elevation of womankind and to raise 
higher their standard of just principles and help 
them to realize they are the gentle and guiding sex 
of humanity. When we enter into matrimony let 
us try and blend our thoughts and reasons into 
harmony. Sharing each others privileges in home 
and public life. Let men make their wives feel 
they ought to know and be familiar with our laws, 
help make laws and vote on laws as a helpmate for 
man. There might be some little part of law that 
man has neglected and we have new propositions 
in law coming into existence every day. If we have 
the women interested I think they will be a benefit 
to humanity in the enlightenment of civilization 
and bring about a way to solve some problems that 
look rather difficult at present. Education is the 
leash at the present time that leads the world and 
tries to curb its many practices of injustice. 

In thinking on women's rights we may be sure 
that women will better their conditions by helping 
in placing laws upon the statute books and in en- 
forcing them. The men have had ample time to 
adjust matters, to make laws to benefit the women, 
but have it seems, in a selfish or ignorant way, ig- 
nored that part of freedom that every women is en- 

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titled to. We are pledged to encourage and de- 
velop all thoughts in the right course so as to be 
a benefit to humanity in general. 

We have an attack made on Woman Suffrage by 
J. Adam Bede, former Congressman of Minnesota, 
at the conclusion of a banquet given by the Chi- 
cago Jewelers Association numbering six hundred, 
in the Congress Hotel. Also from the gallery four 
hundred women heard his remarks, As I under- 
stand, he scores the women suffrage movement and 
calls it a rag time civilization. 

He also says, "I am glad I don't live in the state 
of Illinois or city of Chicago"; criticizes them 
along the line of talking sex-hygiene and kindred 
topics with men; says she retrogrades; calls it a 
rag-time civilization, and the sooner it is ended the 
better it will be. Of course we will have to take 
the side of opposing his views on this question of 
women's rights, in the first place we don't think he 
showed any courtesy in trying to crush under foot 
a movement that has been launched out for the 
betterment of the country in general, to uplift the 
fallen, to help them in their homes, to educate their 
children, to take broad political views in the laws 
they make, giving their daughters and sisters a 
chance to work for their own welfare and thin oat 
some of the narrow minded and selfish politicians, 
and also try to stop the money power from con- 
troling the campaigns. Education along this line 
will help voters to realize and vote for their own 
interest regardless of political bosses. With wom- 
en voting we know it would bring new problems in- 

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to action, but I think we need new problems acted 
upon. I think women in making our laws and 
enforcing them would develop a class of citizens 
that would look after the uplifting of humanity 
and the country may take up new development 
whenever necessary to be a benefit to the majority 
of her citizens. 

We understand that Miss Sarah Hopkins of Chi- 
cago, living in the second ward, is a candidate for 
the council and if elected would turn her salary of 
three thousand dollars per year for the term of 
three years to charitable purposes. She has payed 
taxes in this ward thirty-five years. This goes to 
show she has something higher than money in 
view. Helping the unfortunate and also helping 
her sister class to the place they are entitled to. 
Miss Sarah Hopkins goes before the voters as an 
able candidate, pledged to perform the duties of a 
member of the council to the interest of the muni- 
cipality and its people. This goes to show we have 
women interested in our laws. How many men 
have we that have an interest in laws without the 
salary. We congratulate Miss Sarah Hopkins on 
taking the stand she is taking and may many oth- 
ers take the same views and push forward in help- 
ing the cause they are entitled to, namely, women 's 
rights. We are in favor of the office holders being 
divided in number, half of each class and accord 
ing to their development in national affairs. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

MEN SHOULD PROTECT WOMEN. 

On this plain of life men are supposed to help to 
elevate and protect women in views of enlighten- 
ment, encourage all their advancements of educa- 
tional ways, allowing development of brain to reg- 
ulate the positions that men and women shall ful- 
fill, regardless of the money power or prejudice of 
sex. We are opposed to one certain class of hu- 
manity dominating over the other class. We are 
opposed to men trying to crush the movement of 
women's rights. 

We have heard many so-called educated men 
make remarks of woman suffrage : ' ' Women lack 
the proficiency in educational training to take ac- 
tive part in our government and state affairs. ' ' I 
would like to ask this particular class of men or 
politicians, "did you ever stop to think that all 
your training, all your education originated from 
development of the brain, to make good at the par- 
ticular business you are following. " Take a 
trained politician, place him in the doctors profes- 
sion, he would have to learn and develop that cer- 
tain profession and if he was not adapted to that 
business he would not be successful. It has been 
demonstrated that the power of education has been 
given to women as well as men and in the branches 

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they are permitted to develop they are just as pro- 
ficient as men and in some instances better. 

Think yon, the women of this enlightened age 
have not advanced eqnal to men in educational 
thoughts. Think you they are satisfied with their 
educational course being obstructed by not having 
their freedom as free agents to act as their educa- 
tional way teaches them. Their educational course 
teaches them to try and make laws to benefit them- 
selves, their children and their home. We see 
the labor unions agitating labor rights. They 
have a chance to settle this matter at the voting 
polls, they can adjust their difficulty if they will by 
ballot but how can women adjust their circum- 
stances. They have only one way, by gaining their 
rights as voters. We believe they should adjust 
things. We need the women's support in a great 
many ways, we need their co-operation in stamp- 
ing out vice in its many forms, we need them to co- 
operate in the child labor law, we need them to 
make laws that will help to benefit the conditions 
of the working girls and women looking after their 
interest and conditions as a civilized country 
should. We need their help in trying to stamp out 
the divorce evil that is a disgrace to a civilized 
country. Equal suffrage, what does it mean? I 
think it should mean justice and liberty to be a 
citizen, to take an active part and to denounce 
special privileges. 



CHAPTER VII. 

WOMAN AS A HELPMATE FOR MAN. 

The woman as a helpmate for man. According 
to divine teaching that seems to be the useful posi- 
tion she is allotted to fill. It does not mean to 
work against her own interests. It means to take 
an active part in men's affairs in every way, that 
of a good nature helping him in political views, 
taking part in making laws and helping to enforce 
them, that they may have a people living in har- 
mony and upliftment. 

Some advocate woman suffrage has a tendency 
to make women bold. I think they had ought to 
be bold if they have a cause to uphold. They need 
boldness to defend their principles, to defend their 
honor or rights. I say they need some of those 
qualities, if successful in any good career of life. 
Of course in a great many channels of life they 
have been deprived of the right to defend them- 
selves. It may look to some as a modern problem, 
but it looks to me like a modern justice, not allow- 
ing a law to exist that has been through prejudice 
kept from being recognized as a help to civiliza- 
tion. But a good cause cannot be kept down. 

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Education is found to reign in spite of all obstacles 
it comes in contact with. 

We need quality of brains at this stage of civili- 
zation, not so much the quantity in numbers, to 
place the rigid thoughts of reform and execute the 
work it demands. For the betterment of a country 
in general we need to analize the cause and effect 
of different laws and make laws that are effective 
and cause them to be enforced. If women were 
awarded political voice the cities and states would 
be served much better in many ways, judging from 
other states that have had woman suffrage laws in 
effect. TVe can see it is a law they are not ashamed 
of. It places their citizens on equal basis to make 
laws for the benefit of all of its citizens. 

The way that women are bringing about the 
subject of women's right is in a high-class, educa- 
tional way. When we had to settle the negro 
question of slavery it took many lives to settle this 
question and impress upon the mind of the people 
that slavery was not right, and the more education 
you put into any problem the easier it is to handle 
it. Regardless of prejudice, the women are heroic 
and patriotic. Their indignation would be aroused 
just as easy as the male sex if it comes to insulting 
our flag or our government. 

Looking at woman's rights from a future stand- 
point, we can almost realize the change that is 
almost sure to occur. They are becoming some- 
what different in their marriage thoughts. They 
no longer marry for the man to dictate their per- 

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sonal pursuits or personal happiness regardless of 
their own opinion. They feel like taking an active 
part in the active country in which they live. 
They believe in using the talent they have devel- 
oped in different professions and educational cul- 
ture. 

There has been in this generation a falling off in 
matrimony. We have a great many reasons for 
this cause. One particular cause is that man 
under existing conditions has got to command a 
large salary to keep and support a wife in luxury 
and fashion, and he hesitates to take to himself a 
companion for life, thinking he would have a bur- 
den on his hands and he might not be able to meet 
the demand of his wife along the lines of luxury 
and fashion, and thereby might be an unhappy 
marriage. But the next generation will find cir- 
cumstances different. 

Be will find the woman self-supporting; he will 
find the woman selecting her husband in a very 
cautious way; she expects to be a life partner 
in all his business affairs; she expects to give a 
helping hand in making laws in financial trans- 
actions; she expects to know all the business con- 
cerning her and her life partner. And when the 
man realizes he has a life partner of this kind, he 
looks on matrimony as a different proposition; he 
has a companion that is looking after both his 
and her own personal welfare. He no longer trav- 
els the rugged road to fame alone. He has a com- 
panion that is interested in his pursuits. He has a 

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companion equal in justice and citizenship, to 
help him fight his legal battles, and on those con- 
ditions you will find the divorce cases will dimin- 
ish in number and the home will be a home of edu- 
cational and uplifting thoughts and actions. Each 
will share the others counsel in political views, in 
religious freedom, in home freedom, educational 
freedom, and national freedom. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

A VISION OF STRANGE NATURE. 

A vision of strange nature flitted over my mind. 
I saw the gates of heaven apparently ajar and I 
saw a large crowd of women and children, and I 
wondered what it meant. One of them said to me, 
' ' We are they that have lived on the plain of lif e, 
toiling for existence, half-clothed and hungry. 
We had no chance to study and spend a little time 
that we might elevate our thoughts, but it was toil, 
toil and nothing but work, all day, and part of the 
night, for a mere poor, miserable existence. ' ' 

One of them said to me, ' ' We have suffered more 
than tongue can tell. We were looked upon as a 
mere piece of machinery, when worn out to be cast 
in the scrap pile. Our place was in the ill-venti- 
lated factories, and even our lodgings were dingy 
and dark, and the sunshine and the elements of 
nature were never present. We have lived in this 
so-called elevating and educational country in 
poverty and ignorance and slavery, shortening our 
lives for the greed of men, to horde and pile up 
large sums of gold and silver, at the sacrifice of 
our lives and honor, not allowing us the freedom 
to protect ourselves, not allowing us the rights of 
making laws to benefit our welfare. We are a 
helpless class along this certain channel. Justice 

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appoints to everyone in this civilized country a 
right to use their freedom in making or voting on 
all laws, except the women is in the background of 
civilization, not allowed a chance to make good. 
The great god of justice ignores all practices of 
this nature. He has made the sunshine and all 
things of nature to benefit woman as well as man. ' ' 

The vision passes along and I see another group 
of women. One of them said to me, ' ' Behold the 
folly of life. My companion of life helps to take 
the bread and necessities of life from mothers and 
children and families by dealing in alcoholic bev- 
erages, living a life of selfishness, causing through 
his career marriage vows to be broken, families to 
be made desolate, sons to grow up as total wrecks. 
His beverages cause suicide, murders, robberies. It 
causes all kinds of downfalls in business. It turns 
a loving life into a life of desolation. It causes the 
desertion of husband and causes the desertion of 
wives. It is the one business that has no sym- 
pathy. It leads its victims to the altar to be sacri- 
ficed as a burnt offering for the greed of gold. 
The promotors of this evil are wolves in sheep's 
clothing. Their mask is a smile, and behind that 
mask there lurks all uncleanness; even there the 
devil has his abode. His mire of treacherous 
quicksand takes you down to the depths of hell, — 
and you are soon gone and soon forgotten/ ' 

The vision passes along to more women. One 
said to me, ' ' Behold the wrecked life. Our honor 
has been trampled on. Our very lives have been 

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ruined. We have been bought and sold for money. 
We have come in contact with everything vile and 
dishonorable. We have been beaten, we have 
been shunned, we have been turned from innocence 
into a nest of snakes. For the greed of gold our 
very blood will cry out against the people that 
have caused our downfall. The people that traffic 
in this line will be tormented day and night. We 
have been dealt with as an inferior class of human- 
ity. We have been kept in bondage, not being al- 
lowed the liberty to make and adjust laws to help 
our condition. We were kept under control of 
man, regardless of our educational views, regard- 
less of the misery that exists in our lives. We are 
not allowed the freedom that the great God has 
dictated us to follow in our everyday life. Our 
lives are blighted in youth by not receiving the 
chance to grow up as a class to make laws to bene- 
fit our existence. Our ambition is to live as free- 
born citizens of this country, in all respects to 
honor. We see another class of people who have 
been working for the cause of uplifting humanity. 
They say the time is fast approaching when a 
terrific reform wave will awaken the people to 
realize there is a good work to be done. Money, 
brains, and energy will join hand in hand, battl- 
ing for the right principles of justice and honor, 
adjusting circumstances in favor of all its people 
and not allowing special privileges to exist, allow- 
ing education to guide all humanity, in justice to 
all> 



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CHAPTER IX. 

WOMAN AND LAWS. 

Men and women have been placed upon this 
plain of life to develop their brain capacity. Don't 
allow your head and heart to be a detriment to 
your brain, to lay dorment in its many functions. 
An undeveloped brain makes a bankrupt person, 
not alone financially but losing the many great 
blessings that God has given persons to live a life 
of sincerity to themselves and the whole world in 
general. Women should have a voice in making 
and enforcing our laws to protect their welfare; 
the laws they respect and obey. 

We are glad to see that some states are launch- 
ing out on the broad principles of justice — an 
example of liberty, an example of rights, that be- 
longs to every woman of these united states as a 
free government. One of the sacred rights of the 
word freedom is freedom to feel, freedom in all its 
resources. The word should mean to be represent- 
ed as a free class of people in all channels. In vot- 
ing on laws, as a sacred right that belongs to 
women as well as men, we will take the word 
justice. It should mean justice to all and special 
privileges to none. The time is near at hand when 
our women will shake off the yoke of tyranny and 
assert their rights as freeborn citizens of this great 
republic, not only to vote on all political issues, but 



they will be holding some of the more prominent 
positions now held by famous politicians. Wom- 
en are represented in almost all lines of business 
and professions. Some are finding their right 
vocation, others are in the wrong business. Some 
are satisfied, and are making great successes. 
Some are making a failure of their profession. I 
would say to those that have failed, don't despair, 
laugh at adversity, try another profession. It 
may be you were not adapted to that certain 
career. Aim high. Work for your real ambition. 
You may have a bright future dawning. Battle 
with all obstacles that try to lower your moral 
standards. 



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CHAPTER X. 

YOUNG LADIES AND MATRIMONY. 

Young ladies, a word along the line of matri- 
mony. In choosing a mate in matrimony always 
study his disposition, his temperaments, his self 
esteem, benevolence and selfishness, and if your 
disposition will blend with his in agreeableness, 
you will have an ideal companion in matrimony. 
I would advise young ladies to cultivate and de- 
velop firmness of mind along all channels of life 
that are good and true. Remember a kind word 
costs us nothing and sometimes saves a life. Let 
us scatter roses down the pathway of life, that all 
who come in contact with them may be cheered, 
given new ambition to battle adversities, that they 
may say to us, there was one kind enough to help 
lighten my burden of worry and point out to me a 
ray of sunshine which has caused the clouds to dis- 
appear as if by magic. Be true to yourself in all 
your earthly career and you cannot be false to 
others. Stand together as sisters in uplifting 
the right cause of civilization and the right 
cause of woman's rights in one universal thought 
to help lift each other higher in our great cause of 
liberty and justice. Ladies, we find some of our 
greatest heroic deeds among the women. As a 
general rule they are kind, generous and self- 

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sacrificing for the sake of man. In some instances 
they are his slaves instead of being his equals, as 
in cases of sickness, accidents and financial re- 
verses. She is the one kind angel, administering 
kindness, affection, sympathy, encouragement and 
love. In the Titanic disaster what greater heroic 
and self-sacrificing deed could have been done 
than that of the woman who went down to death 
in her husband's arms rather than part from the 
one she loved. It shows us plainly that her devo- 
tion for him was more than her own life, and we 
have it marked down in history as one of the 
many heroic deeds that are equal to the deeds of 
men. 

I think women should become acquainted with 
our laws, and take part in framing the laws that 
affect the vital parts of our homes. They should 
not be deprived of the liberty God hath given 
them. Men and women were placed on this earth 
to live in harmony with each other, to try and 
promote the welfare of each other in good, moral 
and religious ways, and to look upon life as a 
privilege to help and benefit each other in different 
stations of life, and in friendship and love. Dis- 
honesty in Christianity must go. Dishonesty in 
politics must go. Dishonesty in living in our 
everyday life must go. Let us appear as we really 
are. Let us tell what we really believe. Let us 
do what the spirit of God prompts us to do. By 
so doing we will be living a life of usefulness, a 
life of purity, a life of charity and nobility. 

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Along the line of marriage, of course, this is a 
subject of great interest. It touches the most of 
our lives. I think it would a good proposition to 
study and look over very carefully learning all 
that it means and all that it should mean. We 
should study and learn all its joyous uplif tings, all 
its sorrowful downfalls. It is the one subject that 
causes happiness or misery to exist in marriage 
homes. 

It would be well for us to stop and consider, both 
man and woman, the material that we would use 
in this one great structure of matrimony. We 
should realize that men are not the dominating 
power. We should realize that woman is just as 
essential as man in political careers. Woman has 
developed far enough so that generally she is rea- 
sonable in her beliefs. In religious and political 
belief she tries to look all circumstances square in 
the face. She realizes that the welfare of her 
home in married life depends on new laws and ad- 
justment of laws. Woman is no longer willing to 
be ruled by man just because he is a man. They, 
as a general rule, would like to be governed by the 
highest types of education, either man or woman. 
With the one who is most proficient, women would 
like to be on equal rights in all the questions of 
this civilized and enlightened world and allow 
brains and development of brains in various chan- 
nels to command the voice and respect of the peo- 
ple at large. Who does not respect a woman who 
fulfills all of her obligations with grace and 

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charm? Then, allow her to advance in the many- 
branches she is entitled to advance in. In enter- 
ing into matrimonial life, choose your equal and 
develop equally with him in all the educational 
pursuits of life. 

If a man expects to have a modern wife for a 
companion, one who mentally can understand and 
follow his inspirations, he must put her on equal 
terms in all branches of law, give her all the educa- 
tional freedom that exists and if a man is superior 
in intelligence and wisdom it will soon become ap- 
parent. Allow everybody to develop the talents 
or faculties God hath given them through the 
channels of nature. The foolish sections of women 
are fighting man with trickery and some go so far 
as to lay property at waste. The real woman of 
education is convincing him by her wisdom, by 
her demonstration of her knowledge of life and its 
duties and by proving that she is at last fitted to 
be treated as an equal and a comrade and not as an 
inferior. She would like to be recognized accord- 
ing to her education in the field of all enterprise 
that is open for mankind to pursue and to allow 
wisdom and knowledge to decide her career of the 
pursuit she should follow. 

Woman is willing, in open competition, to be 
governed by a decision of education and justice. 
She admires the right of being the free moral ag- 
ent of her ability and education in all the branches 
of civilization. She admires the right to promote 
her ideas of usefulness, not only in a domestic 



channel but in all branches of industry and en- 
lightenment. All great men originated from the 
home. Their first development of thought was in 
the home. In after years their mental capacity 
took a different abode. It took competition in 
open fields to gain that which they acquired. 

In all marriages have the certain individuals 
that have united in holy bonds of matrimony and 
are to blame for their grievance or their unhappi- 
ness. To insure happiness there must be a tremen- 
dous sense of personal responsibility to each other 
in keeping the vows that have been performed in 
the presence of the Almighty God and man, the 
oath they take to love each other until death parts 
them. In every marriage the women should ask 
themselves, "can I love him above all others; can 
I try and respect his ways and hold his affection 
and love; can I make and respect him as my equal 
in all the ways and branches of life." In every 
marriage man should ask himself, ' ' can I love and 
adore her above all others in placing her in my 
most noblest position of trust; can I put her as 
my equal in development pertaining to all laws of 
civilization. " If he can answer all these questions 
satisfactorily he may know that his chance for 
peace and happiness is good but if his mental and 
physical desires are stronger than his vows he will 
likely see his mistake in matrimony which cannot 
be blamed to women. This is an important re- 
sponsibility. It means a life of happiness or a life 
of misery. Man or woman, don 't enter into matri- 
mony as if drawing a lottery ticket. 



The chances of a happy marriage are too small 
to consider anything of this nature but study the 
dispositions of each other. While we cannot all be 
at the heights of perfection we can have a sacrific- 
ing spirit to please each other, and in this partic- 
ular phase of life we can keep the commandments 
of our creator, to love one another and place our 
liberties on equal, in all channels to God, and in 
all channels in life 's career. Toward one another 
everyone will agree that there is a vast difference 
between marriage as it is, and marriage as it 
should be. Matrimony gives us a chance to pro- 
mote that one thought of love to our companion of 
life, to keep the altar of happiness aflame with 
kindness and love, eternal love for each other, 
eternal liberty for each other. The thought still 
remains unshaken that this is the doorway through 
which the greatest results and blessings of mar- 
riage may be attained. Matrimony gives us an op- 
portunity to blend everything near and dear to us 
into one sunshiny thought of living for each others 
future welfare. Develop your will. You need will 
power in married life in keeping your vows of love 
and sacrificing spirit to your matrimonial compan- 
ion and the creator of all universe. Ignorance 
along the line of marriage vows does not mean in- 
nocence. Ignorance means to learn and become 
familiar with the real facts of the situation. Start 
out with that determination, I will live a life of 
love and purity with my life 's companion. Blessed 
are the pure in heart. There is no place where the 

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teaching of the divine is needed in thought and ac- 
tion more than in relation of marriages. The dense 
fog of filthy thoughts are stumbling stones in mar- 
ried life. There is nothing on this plane of life 
grander than pure love, two hearts that beat the 
same as one in all joys and sorrows. Two minds 
that work in unity as one, on all questions pertain- 
ing to personal and national affairs, in equal rights 
in harmony to each other, harmony to the teach- 
ings of the great instructor that has given you a 
sense of knowledge to choose the right motives to 
live in this life and prepare yourself for the great 
life beyond. Every man, every woman has to an- 
swer for the lives they live upon this plane of life. 
Each are the agent of their deeds, either good or 
bad, vastly different from the man and wife polit- 
ically, the man makes the laws for himself and 
wife, but on the other side of life they individually 
are responsible for the deeds they perform in life 
and the life they live. 



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CHAPTER XL 

THE YOUNG MARRIED COUFLE. 

Think of the young married couple starting out 
with beautiful thoughts of a life of love and use- 
fulness. Now they are drifting in thought from 
one another day by day, week after week, their 
love is turned to coldness for each other. He visits 
places not respectable and she does likewise. As 
time goes on a disliking for each other 's company 
has become a reality; he no longer cares for the one 
he has taken marriage vows to love and protect; 
she no longer loves the man she once loved and 
their lives are wrecked. We see a separation, a 
divorce, the once happy man and wife are going 
to part from each other forever. They will never 
be known in each others lives; they are traveling 
on the scene of life with blighted hopes. Our 
duties are to do all we can to elevate those shat- 
tered hopes and try and bring about a life of use- 
fulness, pointing out to them the folly of vice. On 
this scene of life we may travel the road that leads 
upward to success to all good teaching, to all that 
is noble and true, or, we may travel the road that 
leads to everlasting shame, the road that leads 
downward to all immoral deeds and practices. 
Which will you choose, which will you travel? If 
you are traveling the road to shame, ! turn your 

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footsteps and thoughts back while you have yet 
time, turn them back and make life worth living. 
You can retrace your steps to something noble and 
just, something that will turn the balance of life 
into sunshine and happiness. Whoever say you 
can't is a false guide not worthy to be called a 
guide. You are the one that shapes your future. 
Nature gives you the opportunity to develop into 
highest thoughts, noble actions, honorable profes- 
sions and great achievements. 



CHAPTER XII. 

THAT LITTLE THOUGHT. 

Oh, think of that little thought, nourished day 
by day, growing into that gigantic thought, a 
world-wide agitation causing the vices to shudder 
under strain of reform, hunting for its existence in 
the last places in the civilized world. Oh the edu- 
cational thought drawing tighter, the web of re- 
form causing the followers of vice to suffer a liv- 
ing death. We see a little vessel launched. The 
name of this vessel is reform. It travels in har- 
mony with justice. Its captain and crew are wo- 
men. It is prepared to fight battles. If necessary 
it will use weapons mightier than the sword. They 
have an object in view. They have a work to do 
that has been dictated from above. They will 
never stop until the message they have received 
shall be fulfilled. The essence of their message is 
the uplifting of everything that is good and pure, 
and trampling under their feet everything that is 
vile and unclean. We see another vessel. The 
name of this vessel is Charity. This also is han- 
dled by women. It finds its way into the homes of 
the destitute and the fallen people. Its message 
to fulfill is helping the needy, lifting up the fallen. 
They are doing the work they are commanded to 
do by a divine spirit. They are prepared also to 

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give battle if necessary. Their weapons are a 
proof of the vile deeds committed by those that 
have fallen by the wayside. Where are we drift- 
ing ? As we look on both sides of life in this hnstle 
along, we almost forget that life is so short. We 
don't stop to observe the laws of nature, neither 
the laws of God. The principal part of onr rush 
is for the dollar, but remember we will have to 
take time and stop to die. When lifes' reaper 
calls, death comes our way. We will respond to 
the call, it don't make any difference about our 
condition. 

Lucky are those that have made calculations for 
their future home after they leave this house of 
clay or body. I would advise everybody to spend 
a little time and think it over. Ask yourself what 
amount of wealth can I take with me to the other 
side of life. Reason it out and you can tell very 
close how heavy a load it will be to carry. Think 
over your future life; a little thinking along this 
line might be a great benefit to you. Ask yourself 
if there is any good that you can do for your fel- 
low being. Can I cheer anyone along this life ; can 
I help any needy one along this life; can I do any- 
thing for anyone that is sick; can I scatter any 
flowers down life's pathway that will benefit any- 
one, or shall I scatter them on their graves. Can I 
find someone that is tired of life and give them a 
kind word and cheer them; can I find someone that 
needs advice to benefit their condition; can I do 
anything to benefit and better conditions of my 



country and life companions. As we travel along 
this sphere of life, little do we think the reaper of 
lifes' harvest is continually busy working in rain 
and in sunshine, day and night, and as Father 
Time turns his pages we can but only wonder and 
reflect. 

Back to our boyhood days the recollections seem 
only a dream compared to the changes that time 
has wrought at the present time. We see no more 
of the old ways of living, we are continually push- 
ing onward. We know not whither the march of 
civilization reaching from east to west. In our 
mad rush we don't consider that we need time to 
adjust our thoughts to some other road that we 
must travel sooner or later. It is not left for us to 
decide when we shall travel that road but we must 
surely travel it and every day makes it one day 
closer to our destination. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

VANITY. 

Man can follow the road of vanity in its various 
ways or he can follow the road of virtue. It would 
be a blessing to humanity could man and woman 
have a soul as bountious to others as heaven has 
been favorable to them. That whatever useful and 
uplifting task they undertake they might shed 
gifts of smiles around them. All mankind are 
born heirs of suffering and as joint inheiritors, if 
we do not wipe away each others tears, this would 
prove to be a comfortless world. The obstructive 
pile of granite which has blocked the road of the 
weak has become a stepping stone of the great. 
Have the courage to denounce the society that 
travels the road to intemperance and vice. Have 
the courage to amend your own conduct to the best 
of your ability, in good moral principles for your 
own conduct to the best of your ability. Don't 
travel the road of idleness that offers up your soul 
as a parchment to be written on by the devil. The 
man or woman that dares to think for himself and 
act independently of others is doing a service to 
humanity. Their inner self or soul never guides 
or prompts them to do evil actions. How can we 
keep the commandments of the divine teacher, 
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self, and see 

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our friends and neighbors destitute and needy. 
Needy of good teachings to shun places that are 
dragging them to prisons, asylums, and even to 
the gallows, ruining their principles of manhood. 
Thrift, as I understood the word, means more than 
depositing your money in banks and hoarding it 
up on this plane of life, where gold and silver and 
the vanity of this world fades away. I would rec- 
ommend using gold and silver to promote and de- 
velop the faculties of the brain and make it a 
working capital; working and teaching the people 
in general to live a life of honor and by so doing 
they will lay up treasures in heaven, where moth 
and rust cannot corrupt. Neither will theives 
break in and steal. I would recommend the teach- 
ing of the higher power, using charity as an invest- 
ment, thereby receiving an everlasting income of 
eternal life and happiness. And when the supreme 
ruler says time shall be no longer and the earth 
shall melt and pass away, then this is the real and 
only income of mankind. If we hoard up great 
possessions on this earth or this plane of life, we 
are disobedient to the teachings of the greatest 
teacher the world ever had. Let us use gold and 
silver in promoting thrift of a true nature in sav- 
ing souls. Let us use our surplus savings in doing 
deeds and work that will turn a life of envy and 
strife into a life of kindness and happiness ; a hap- 
piness in the thought of living a life of purity and 
love. Cheering and administering teachings to 
our brothers and neighbors to travel the straight 
and narrow path that leads to life everlasting, and 

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teach them to shun the broad road that leads to 
destruction, pointing out to them the sin and folly 
of the wine cup, the stepping stone of almost all 
vice and downfalls. We should use some of our 
surplus earnings of wealth in the only real and 
wise way to insure future welfare. Helping the 
needy, uplifting the fallen, comforting those that 
are in sorrow. We should use some of the money 
that is set aside for the purpose of building and 
extending our prisons and asylums in educating 
the people and try and catch the theif before he 
starts. Locking the barn after the horse is stolen 
is a poor policy. We should use some of our sur- 
plus earnings in helping to push forward the move- 
ment of equal suffrage a cause worthy of note. To 
equalize the right of our country in allowing a 
class of educated people to vote and make laws to 
destroy the originating cause of the downfall of 
their sons and daughters. It is education that 
classes alcohol as a poison. The people using it 
as a beverage and forming a habit are committing 
a slow suicide. You may point out cases where 
people live to old age but their finest talents and 
their brain cells have been dying for years. I say 
a slow suicide, then I say, allow our women their 
franchise, they will make and enforce laws to save 
their children from ruin and make laws to stamp 
out the real root of almost all crime. They have 
the courage to say and mean, my boy and girl shall 
not be a sacrifice to the devil. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

DOLLAR CHASERS. 

On this plain of life there are two distinct class- 
es. The class that uplifts people in knowledge and 
everything good, even sacrificing part of their 
time and money in so doing. They are living a 
life of usefulness, keeping the teachings of their 
creator and setting an example to guide others to 
walk in an upright and honorable way. The other 
class are chasing the dollars. How are they chas- 
ing them ? By doing things that are not honorable. 
Their very lives seem to crave money. All their 
thoughts are how to get money. Money seems to 
be a great tyrant working against the laws of na- 
ture, working against the laws of God, causing the 
downfall of women, of churches and societies. 
While if used in the right way they might prove 
to be a benefit to mankind. Many great men of 
today are in favor of women's rights. They re- 
member the history of our country in its infancy. 
When we were required to pay taxes and could 
not be represented we rebelled. We did not like 
to live under such conditions and rebelled. We 
are a country that did not approve of taxation 
without representation and we finally won out 
even in our infancy. The women are not asking 

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for anything unreasonable. How many mothers 
are paying taxes in the United States today. How 
many daughters are paying taxes today on prop- 
erty? And I say they are entitled to vote as free 
citizens of the United States and help make laws 
as citizens. I think that would be high class civ- 
ilization. To be sure the women might not do as 
well in holding some offices as men there is a good 
answer for that. The men have had experience 
along that line and the women need to educate 
themselves to take active part in government af- 
fairs. We believe in development of faculties, we 
believe in using the brain that God has given us, 
in trying to promote the welfare of each other in 
all the channels of life. In the first place try and 
get their vote and voice in political affairs and 
then develop to their certain calling or position. 
There certainly cannot be any harm come from 
this idea. Is it any wonder the women of today 
are drifting out of their domestic channels of life 
into a political belief. The laws along the line of 
drunkenness and shame have turned their minds 
to something else. It has made them dissatisfied 
with the position in life they are holding, the sur- 
roundings of intemperance they have seen fam- 
ilies raised in and in every way good trying to 
keep them from that terrible monster, drunken- 
ness. 

The mother weeping and trying every way in 
her power to keep them from this evil that ruins 
mankind, recks lives. We have had churches that 

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have taken active part to try and curb the liquor 
traffic, also the political part known as the prohib- 
ition party, but still liquor traffic goes on. There 
is only one way to wipe this curse from our land 
and that is to go about it on the plan that strikes 
at the root of its existence. Kill the root of the 
monster and the other part will die. What is the 
use of taking out a license for a saloon if it is 
right ? Why not let everybody sell it the same as 
other commodities ? Instead of that the city takes 
part of the saloon money for license. In one sense 
of the word it looks like the city were in partner- 
ship with them, and still we have to keep up the 
expense of prisons, asylums, workhouses and 
clothe and feed the inmates of those institutions. 
Is it right to license a wrong? Is it right to license 
a traffic that causes the downfall of its citizens! 
Is it right to license a traffic that causes murders, 
suicides, insanity, breaking up homes and causing 
the downfall of our daughters? Is it right to 
license a traffic that is against everything that is 
good and pure! 



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CHAPTER XV. 

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. 

Opportunity has turned a deaf ear or rather con- 
ditions have at the present writing, to woman suf- 
frage as a national movement and has confined it 
to the various states to decide its destination. 
Within each state it will take longer to bring about 
certain laws and of course the national actions 
along this movement will naturally cause the 
states to oppose suffrage movement in action of a 
national affair. But steady agitation and work 
in sincerity will bring about this just cause. Mean- 
ing liberty to all and special privileges to none. Is 
is right that half the population of a country shall 
make the laws to govern the other half that has no 
voice whatever! They have nothing to say and 
have all to obey. This looks a little tyranical, a 
little selfish. This looks like the man thinks he is 
dealing with an inferior class of humanity, other- 
wise he don't like to meet them on equal rights in 
open fields of civilization. Woman Suffrage is the 
one great subject that is discussed in almost all 
parts of the civilized world. The question is of as 
much interest to the women in general to have 
their rights as it was to the slave of the south to 
have their freedom and become citizens. Some 

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women are misused and trampled on; their lives 
are but little better in thought than slaves; their 
lives are a life of drudgery and poverty, toiling 
for an existence and paid by some money power. 
And still the money power thinks they are doing 
a great act of kindness in giving them employ- 
ment. 'Shall a woman have her rights if she does 
as good as man? I say, show no difference in sal- 
ary. I believe in equal rights in all branches of 
industry. Do you believe in the poor working girl 
in the shirtwaist factory toiling hard early and 
late to make millionaires ? I don't. Can they take 
an interest and help make laws in order to help 
their conditions and not only in this certain line 
but many other propositions. It is a justice to 
every woman to protect her sister's welfare. The 
state of Illinois and city of Chicago has shown 
their broad principles by launching out on liberty 
principles. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 

WOMAN SUFFRAGE— A PEEP INTO THE FUTURE. 

Woman Suffrage — a peep into the future. We 
can almost see the change that educational devel- 
opment will bring about. We can see the societies 
in active force. We can see new laws regulating 
the divorce evil. We can see our matrimony ques- 
tions discussed on a purely educational basis. We 
can see the women taking an active part in making 
laws to benefit their own classes. We can see them 
acting on questions that strike direct in their 
home life, making and enforcing laws to uplift 
and uphold the good moral principles of a liberty 
loving people. They will try to equalize the bur- 
dens of its people. They will not allow one tyranic 
power to prey upon the weaker classes that have 
been placed there for some mission to fulfill and 
some certain pursuit to develop. They realize that 
there is some work to be done in other channels of 
life greater than hoarding millions of dollars and 
oppressing the unfortunate and taking advantage 
of the weaker citizen. They know that God has 
created man and woman and given them teachings 
of equal rights. They will feel like they are a part- 
ner of man in home and national affairs. It is not 
to shirk her part as wife and mother. It is to share 

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the freedom of the nation; it is to feel the freedom 
of all details of advancement ; it is to feel they are 
on equal footing and not harnessed down with that 
tyranny they have had to battle with in an educa- 
tional way through their existing lives. It gives 
them an opportunity to advance on different views 
that cannot be at present. It is a freedom to act 
and have an open field to make her choice, while 
at present, half of the people have the regulation 
of the other half. Does this look like liberty? 
Does this look like justice ! On equal footing and 
with equal voice there may be expected some 
changes of the laws that exist at present, or other 
laws that will remedy some of the evils that have 
been fought in many ways but have made little 
success. Prejudice has kept women from develop- 
ment in many ways. Vocations they could master 
in certain channels they have taken up. As actors 
they are equal or superior to man and in the fu- 
ture they will prove themselves in many ways 
equal to or superior to men. Man has been the 
ruler of the world and he hates to share his joys 
with the women. Women in some instances are 
the highest type of civilization; take for example 
in practical schools they have shown long ago that 
they are equally as good or superior to men, and 
many women today are stars in journalism, cover- 
ign fields in which they are superior to the male 
sex, in fact in any mental work. They are develop- 
ing close to the heights of perfection. Man is the 
natural protector of woman. Then let us protect 
them in having their rights in all vocations, in all 

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the business activities they can develop into suc- 
cessfully and proficiently. American men have 
always treated ladies with respect and I think they 
will along the line of Suffrage Movement, which 
has been launched and proven successful in many 
western states. I congratulate our class of women 
as they are resorting only to the highest educa- 
tional ways to gain their just and right place in 
this educational and high-classed civilization. A 
great many have thought of breaking up homes 
and causing all kinds of divorce cases, but the 
states that have tried equal suffrage have found it 
has diminished divorce cases. The majority of 
women have the hardest end of life to endure, con- 
sidering her station not only in married life, but 
their lives as being employed, working some of 
them for salaries too small to keep them in the 
necessities of life, allowing nothing for educa- 
tional purposes. To prove my assertion you can 
inquire from East to West and satisfy yourself. 
The women feel like helping their brother class 
by giving him a helping hand in all forms of edu- 
cational ways. The women in general feel like 
they want their mother, their sisters to take an ac- 
tive part in law making. They are in favor of ac- 
tive voice in laws and try and regulate their own 
conditions in many ways. They try and curb the 
the ways of some tyranical men that seem to use 
their strength through the channels of their money 
power. We think that man is making millions of 
dollars out of the labor of girls in factories and 
other concerns. We are not doing justice in allow- 

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ing this to exist in this civilized country and the 
girls and women working and wearing their lives 
away for something they don't get, or to make it 
plain, putting their money in his pocket to in- 
crease his millions and he has the credit of getting 
it through his shrudeness. He don't seem to real- 
ize that he is getting it out of the sweat and lives 
of a helpless class of girls and women that are not 
living, but merely existing. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

TIME AND FOLLY. 

In looking over this world we see a surging sea 
of humanity. Some of us are leading a good, faith- 
ful life. Faithful to ourselves, faithful to the teach- 
ings of our Creator, and teaching the truth of liv- 
ing a temperate life, shunning the places with 
glittering signs and the so-called places of gaiety 
that cause our very existence to dislike to meet 
people with refined ways, of good true principles. 
Drink and drugs and dissipation are the guide- 
posts that lead to the lowest path that can be trav- 
eled by humanity. It is the path where every 
step there is a hidden serpent crouching around 
the people that travel this road seemingly innocent 
when the first step is taken, but later on as you 
travel you meet people with vulgar expressions, 
blotted faces, red eyes, forlorn, haggard looks, 
their faces seemingly of gaiety and laughter but 
it is only a mask. Behind this mask what do you 
find! What do you see? You see misery lurking 
in almost every form. You see the once lovely 
young man, his parents pride; you see the once 
happy girl that was a joy to all. You see the once 
faithful huband; you see the once faithful wife, 
drifting down this precipice to hell, little, by little 

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they have been enticed into the demon 's web. The 
web that encircles its coils tighter and tighter, 
making slaves of them that he has in his power. 
Your cravings of drink, of brandy or absinthes 
causing devils to dance on your brain, demons to 
dictate your actions, your conversations, causing 
tears of mockery, causing thoughts of suicide, 
causing all vile thoughts, causing you to see your- 
self deserted, starving, dying alone, causing you 
to think your life is a burden to you, to your asso- 
ciates and you haven 't a friend who would give 
you a helping hand to lift you up out of the misery 
that surrounds your existence. You realize that 
you have become a slave, a slave to everything 
vile and shunned by everything of a good nature. 
Drink is the greatest downfall of men and women. 
It is the first footstep of all other vices ; it turns a 
life purity into a life of everlasting* shame. Oh, 
turn from that vile, that folly poured out of a bot- 
tle. The greatest safeguard of humanity is to 
shun all alcoholic beverages, spurn the idea of as- 
sociating with a class that uses it and don't be 
tempted by fabulous stories of being good for your 
health. It lays at waste the life that God has given 
you to live in happiness and in usefulness. It 
blights your life that has been calculated for a 
high calling. It causes your existence to drift 
into a life of dark clouds which was calculated to 
be a sunshiny life. Avoid the first glass as an 
enemy. Class them as demons trying to prey upon 
innocence, class them as the destroying fiends of 
hell, class them as life-wreckers of humanity, 

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wrecking lives of sincerity and purity. By the in- 
fluence of starting out on a life career of degrad- 
ation, the influence of starting you toward the 
road that leads you to the morgue. The influence 
that leads to poverty and a paupers grave. Oh, 
shun this kind of company, lift your thoughts to a 
higher comrade in life. Choose your associates of 
a moral character, that travel the road leading to 
everything of a pure nature, whose thoughts are 
of a bright, sunshiny collection, their lives a model 
of the highest thoughts of perfection, grasping 
ideas of personal welfare, striving to live a life of 
sincerity and of an uplifting disposition to all. If 
we live a life of uplifting humanity, we can see 
pleasures in everything that is good. We can see 
pleasure in flowers, that have been made for our 
benefit, that have been placed here to cheer us in 
sickness and in our bereavements of our dear 
friends in death, the beautiful tokens of love for 
his departed child or friend, the flower seems to 
point to truth and purity, and seems to draw us 
near to that supreme ruler of the universe. Also 
the sunshine, think of it, almost penetrating into 
our very souls, causing us to speak good words of 
the Creator of all nature. Let us feel the sunshine 
in our everyday life and observe the duties. It 
prompts us to do kindness and to love each other. 
Oh, the stupidity of drunkenness. Oh, the hearts 
broken, the vows broken by drunkenness and the 
misery, and so many sent to an untimely grave. 
Allow me to picture a scene of drunkenness. A 
wife and a child, the father drinking day after day, 

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finally the liquor took possession of his mental 
powers, he saw huge snakes after him, with their 
mouths open ready to sting him. He saw reptiles 
of all kinds trying to get him. His fright was 
something terrible. His eyes and face were drawn 
out of shape, he endured this for about six hours, 
crouching in the corners of the room in fearful 
fright, finally in one of his spells he passed to the 
world beyond in death. Think of the agony of 
such a death ; his wife and child could not bid him 
good-bye; they could not give him the last token 
of love on this earth, but he passed into eternity, 
no more to return. Think of the suffering of a 
wife and little daughter ; think of their future feel- 
ings. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 

WOMAN'S RIGHTS. 

We hear some words so wonderous bright, 
The essence is of woman's rights. 
They brought emotional thoughts of light 
That may be chanted day and night. 

And as time flies we seem to hear 
Of that privilege we hold so dear, 
To work in harmony far and near, 
And gain our vote without fear. 

In after years we hope to see 
Our words and actions all agree, 
And point out lessons that will be 
A message of love to you and me. 

And as we jog along in fame, 
Keeping in mind our Saviour 's name, 
And shunning deeds that lead to shame — 
Keeping close to the narrow lane. 

That our deeds may all be true, 

In the spirit of love and justice too ; 

Like the flowers that love the dew, 

And raise their heads to the skies so blue. 

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We hope our work will be blessed, 
In every place of usefulness, 
And set examples to the rest 
That have been living in wickedness. 

And as the years roll on in time, 

And we in age do fall in line, 

Our thoughts may be of one Divine, 

That has helped us to His words entwine. 

And as the sun is sinking fast, — 
Our lives cannot much longer last, — 
We give one look back to the past, 
And then on one our burden cast. 

And our lives are written through 
With kind actions and justice too, 
In observing the Saviour's words so true, 
In all the kindness we could do. 

And may the spirits around us hover, 
And guide us on in search of heaven; 
And our spirit soar to the heights above, 
And our kindness left as a token of love. 



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CHAPTER XIX. 

GIANT INTEMPERANCE. 

This is a hard monster to fight. He breaks up 
homes, separates man and wife, causes the scene 
of the scaffold, causes suicides, causes murder, and 
causes the downfall of women. He scorns and 
laughs at things that are good and true. He is 
opposed to uplifting women to a higher place in 
life. He is a blood-sucker to civilization, sucking 
out their very blood of existence and leaving their 
physical frame a walking wreck of humanity. He 
takes his captives to the lowest places of existence. 
His vile places seem to lure them tighter in his 
web or net, and when he has gained the last spark 
of humanity, he causes them to end their lives, 
and they pass on to eternity, never to be seen up- 
on the scene of life again. Giant Intemperance is 
the monster that has no shame, the monster that 
has no respect for the country and its citizens at 
large. It brings some of our best talented doctors 
to the gutter; it causes our merchants to fail; it 
causes our wives, through ill treatment, to fill an 
untimely grave ; it causes our sons to do deeds that 
cause them to swing on the scaffold. 

We have heard people say we are a free people, 
and we want our personal freedom. Is it a free- 

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dom for a government to license a traffic that 
causes part of its people to prey on the other class, 
sending them down to ruin? Causing, through its 
legislated laws, a legalized crime? We are very 
careful to protect our country from that dreadful 
disease, leprosy, but we legalize a worse disease in 
all its forms. We legalize a business that saps the 
life blood out of its victims. Not only this, but it 
causes the murder-scene in saloons, in homes, and 
other places. We legalize a traffic that is dealing 
in everything vile. The surroundings of its exist- 
ence causes our boys and girls to be sacrificed as a 
tribute for its existence. It is the one traffic that 
stoops to all careers of debauchery, causing inno- 
cent captives to be turned into a nest of snakes. 
Our laws restrict people from highway robbery 
and thefts of all kinds. Murder is a felony of the 
law, the penalty is hanging or life -imprisonment. 
But we as a class of people should demand that 
moral principles be observed. That this curse, 
that poisons our children's systems and scatters 
broadcast crime, misery, murder and insanity 
among them, shall not exist. We should demand 
that the cause of this offense should be wiped out 
of existence. Brains, energy and capital should 
unite in one universal thought of doing their duty 
toward mankind and cause this misery that exists 
through liquor channels to be wiped out of exist- 
ence by getting at the very life of its existence. 
Stop the breweries, the distilleries. Under sen- 
tence the violators of this act should pay the pen- 
alty of life-imprisonment, which would soon re- 

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duce the crime and throw it where it justly be- 
longs. 

Every year some of our brightest young men fill 
a drunkard's grave. This liquor traffic should be 
looked upon as a serpent preying and encircling 
its coils around its victims, tighter each day, each 
week, until finally the last spark of life is extinct. 
Oh what a sad incident the sinking of the Titanic! 
the loss of sixteen hundred persons, mostly hus- 
bands. Their wives, that were rescued, well recall 
the memories of that fatal night. The anxiety, 
the feeling of heart-broken anguish no tongue can 
express. My friends, we have a disastrous busi- 
ness that is sending every day a large number of 
people to an untimely grave, — sending our boys, 
our girls and everybody that takes part in the use 
of the wine cup. They are tossed over the preci- 
pice into eternity. And think of others the lives 
blighted, the brain power benumbed by that dread- 
ful poison, alcohol. Our forefathers have used 
it, and allowed its use. But we are not going 
backward, we are advancing in civilization. We 
are advancing in education. We as a country are 
supposed to look after the welfare of one another. 
We are supposed to make laws and enforce them 
for the welfare of the public at large, and not allow 
a money power to control the sentiments of the 
people. 

What do we see in the wine rooms? The young 
man and young girl drinking and chatting. They 
are not talking of church matters. How can they 

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develop into some high acquirement, or some 
Christian pursuit, that will show good examples 
for others to follow? They are in a place sur- 
rounded by evil thoughts and evil companions. 
If the place is all evil, how can any good be de- 
rived out of evil f Later in the evening we see the 
young man and girl surging, trying to get to their 
rooms or homes. They have lost that self-respect 
of being refined and honorable persons. They drift 
downward on this degrading life till finally they 
get tired of life, and the tempter persuades them to 
commit suicide and get out of this rut of shame. 
Think of the girl that has fallen, caused by drink, 
and as a general thing they prey on some innocent 
young man and drag him down to everlasting dis- 
grace. 

The saloonkeepers say, "We pay for the privi- 
leges we get." I say, no! You will have to an- 
swer at the bar of God for the misery you have 
caused in dealing in liquors, causing your fellow- 
being's downfall. You will have to answer for the 
homes that have been wrecked through your ca- 
reer of vice and folly. You will have to answer 
or your own home that has been destroyed. And 
your son and daughter. You have taught them 
the vice and folly in your own home, by doing 
things not respectful to humanity. 

The drunkard's Christmas and his family. 
Christmas evening the little boy and girl, scantily 
dressed, have hung their stockings up over the 
fireplace, hoping they would be filled during the 
night with good things. Their dear little hearts 

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were apparently happy as they went to bed to 
dream of the beautiful toys dear Santa Claus 
would bring them. The next morning — Christ- 
mas morning — think of the anguish; think of the 
weeping at the disappointment of finding their 
stockings empty. 

The saloonkeeper has gotten the money that 
should have been used for the little boy and girl, 
and the father has a Christmas present of a severe 
headache. Does this scene broaden the children's 
love! Does it develop kindness in them? Does 
it not make them, feel like they are a worthless 
class of humanity? Does it not have a tendency 
to cause them to lose respect for their home ? Our 
saloonkeepers pay for a license to make people 
miserable. They pay a license to send our coming 
generations into hell, and as a general thing he 
himself dies a horrible death. 



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CHAPTER XX. 

WIVES, MOTHERS AND SISTERS. 

Wives, mothers and sisters are entitled to their 
political freedom along all lines of education; 
along every pursuit that is of an uplifting develop- 
ment, allowing their liberties to extend to the 
highest peaks of admiration, that it may be car- 
ried down to the billowy depths of time and classi- 
fied as a reality and not as a mere joke, allowing 
them to push forward in pursuits they are talent- 
ed to pursue, in which at the present time they are 
ignored as a class unworthy of national freedom. 
The freedom that the supreme ruler hath given to 
women should not be trampled on by man. Men 
as a stronger class should encourage women in 
their good pursuits, in uplifting civilization, and 
honor. We are facing propositions every day that 
need woman's attention, not only in the home but 
in political fields. Our boys and girls are living in 
a civilized country where crime is tolerated, or, ex- 
plaining it a little further, we license men to carry 
on a traffic that causes humanity to lose self- 
respect. We find our children in the gutter. We 
find them in places of vile disrespect. It causes 
them to do deeds of a degrading nature. We give 
a license to sell our children's souls to the devil. 

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We can quarantine contagious diseases, but the 
most disastrous disease we license to prey upon 
our loved ones. 

Does this show high-classed education? Does 
it not show need of protection for homes. Does 
this not show need of the mother 's voice in politi- 
cal campaigns? Are we as a nation classified as 
being a narrow-minded people? No, we are not 
looked upon by nations of the world as such. But 
still we allow a liquor traffic to exist that is re- 
sponsible for the downfall and miseries of myriads 
of our citizens. The principle part of crimes orig- 
inate from liquor. The principle part of the in- 
mates of our prisons and workhouses originated 
from the use of liquor. The principle part of the 
inebriates and insane are people that used liquor 
in its many forms. Man has had ample time to 
adjust this traffic in souls. The liquor-seller bar- 
ters souls and bodies to the devil. The cry of the 
mother is to rescue her boy, her girl, to save them 
from that cruel death caused by the death-dealing 
liquor traffic. 

Have men, with their long career of political 
views, come to the rescue of the innocent class of 
individuals? Have they come to the front rank 
and cast their vote for the principles of manhood ? 
Have they demanded that this curse, that wastes 
lives and is in no way a benefit to humanity, shall 
cease ? Do not allow the money power behind the 
breweries to dictate. Allow your own individual 
thoughts to teach you, by asking yourself, has the 
liquor traffic done one good turn to humanity? 



The votes of the women will, no doubt, bring this 
question to the front rank of thought. The dram- 
keeper, — think you he loves his business? Think 
you if he sells sorrow and shame to his fellow- 
beings that he will not reap a harvest of that 
which he sows? The laws of man gives him 
license to sell that which causes his brother to 
commit desperate crimes; causes him to break the 
laws of man, and the laws of God. He certainly 
does not sell it for the honor he derives from it. 
This goes to show that money is more precious to 
him than life, more precious than anything in 
humanity. 

We shall try to give some of the wrongs it 
causes. It causes homes to be wrecked, and little 
children to be scattered and left to the mercy of 
charity. Almost all vice originates from intem- 
perance. It causes the downfall of many other- 
wise pure women. It helps to fill our prisons and 
our asylums. It is a hot bed of all the vices which 
thrive and grow, year by year. Then let us make 
make a law and enforce it, for the welfare of a 
country, of the people, by the people, and for the 
people. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 



CLASSIFYING OUR LIVES. 



We can place lives in three classes, the elevating 
element, the destroying element, and the non-inter- 
ested element. The elevating element works con- 
tinually for the highest development of the people 
of this world by lending a helping hand, a word of 
encouragement to everything of a pure nature. 
It seeks good thoughts; its energy, its impulse, its 
actions are of an elevating character. The de- 
stroying element seeks where it can find a place to 
turn kindness into hatred. The destroying ele- 
ment would tear down, lay waste everything that 
is just and noble, not believing in a supreme God. 
Even the devil believes there is a Supreme Ruler, 
and trembles. The non-interested elments, — a 
word to those who do not seem to have any interest 
in the welfare of their brother or sister on this 
sphere of life. Oh, don't live a life of selfishness. 
Selfishness is a terrible monster. Don't let him 
control your life. Selfishness causes men and 
women to have a narrow mind. They can't see 
life on all sides as it really is, and when the creator 
of all universe calls us to the other side of life we 
may be prepared to exchange and take our spir- 
itual abode. Lay up your treasures in heaven. 

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It does not mean to hoard great riches of gold and 
silver, neither the goods of this world. It means a 
thought that we have lived a useful and just life 
to our Creator. We see a large crowd of women 
representing love. They say we are representing 
the greatest power that has been bestowed on man- 
kind. They say we will work night and day until 
our brothers and sisters are rescued from the jaws 
of the monster vice. We are willing, if necessary, 
to lay down our lives to bring about this love we 
have for our friends. 



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CHAPTER XXII. 

WHAT SIGHTS WE CAN SEE IN THIS ENLIGHTENED 

AGE. 

We see the father coming home to his wife and 
family at a late hour of night intoxicated, stag- 
gering, and hardly able to get home. We seem to 
hear the oaths he utters. We can almost hear the 
abuse he gives them. We can see the wife weep- 
ing for the one she had taken a vow to love. We 
can see the children crying. Their dear little 
hearts are breaking, and they are asking and 
begging him not to drink. Bnt does he care for 
their pleading? We see him growing worse, day 
by day. We next see him in the gutter unable to 
get home; next we see him as he fires the fatal shot 
that causes him to leave this world. Oh, think of 
the horror. What shape is he in to enter the other 
side of life. Think of the anguish of the wife and 
children, the wrecked family, and when they come 
to lay away his remains, think of the sorrow. The 
family left in this world to struggle for existence, 
— caused by the alcoholic drinks sold him by his 
fellowman and brother. What can we give in ex- 
change for a soul 1 

Now we see another sight. A beautiful home, 
beautiful surroundings; — a son. Mother and fath- 

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er have educated and placed great pride and hope 
in him. He is now twenty-two years old. He be- 
gins dabbling with the wine cup, is soon led on. 
His appetite grows stronger and stronger for the 
stimulant, and soon he comes home intoxicated. 
Think of the feelings of the mother that has reared 
him in all that is good and true. On he goes on 
the downward path of intemperance. He is intox- 
icated, and in a quarrel, he shoots and kills one of 
his companions, and gives himself up to the law 
and is condemned to die on the scaffold. Think of 
the father and mother ! Their fond hopes of their 
son which they had tried in everyway to elevate 
into a pure and noble life. No words can express 
their grief. 

Follow me and I will show you another sight, — 
the card game. In some secluded place the young 
men will gather together and gamble for money. 
Of course it is always planned to have their wines 
and alcoholic beverages. The game goes on 
smoothly for a while, but later there is a row. 
Knives are used; one is cut up so he dies. Think 
of the horrible sight and think of the feelings that 
exist in their homes. Of course one is proven 
guilty of murder, and is sentenced to prison for 
life. Oh! young man, think while you have yet 
time, and keep far from that monster, intemper- 
ance. And do not poison your mind with that 
disease of gambling, thinking to get something 
for nothing. We see the world as it is. There is 
a general uneasiness in almost every channel of 

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business. The greed for gold is causing this un- 
easiness. They seem not at all uneasy about their 
future existence. They forget that their existence 
is dependant upon a supreme power. Their hearts 
are controled by a good or an evil spirit, the two 
not being present at the same time. Either the 
good or bad prompts our actions. 



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CHAPTER XXIII. 

A HOME AND FAMILY OF HIGHEST TYPE. 

In a home and family of the highest type of life 
in civilization, the father and mother blend their 
thoughts and actions in respect to their Creator. 
They consult each other in their personal welfare. 
They make sacrifices to please one another. 
They never tire of teaching their family, in culti- 
vating their minds and dispositions into some- 
thing that is noble, developing them into useful 
achievements. They are teaching their children 
to observe the laws of nature, to observe the laws 
of God, pointing out to them also the road that 
leads to destruction and dishonor. They are im- 
pressing upon them the responsibilities of doing 
good deeds and acts of kindness, whenever oppor- 
tunities present themselves. They are taught all, 
the downfall of man, and national rights, citizen's 
rights, woman's rights, the blending of home ties, 
and parental love. They are taught the golden 
rule, "Do unto others as you would be done by." 
They are taught to avoid all intemperance. They 
are taught to keep good company, or none. The 
seed of love and friendship for a good cause is 
planted in their hearts, and their harvest will be 
great. And as they start out upon the road of 

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life in some pursuit or occupation they have a 
good foundation on which to build their business 
or profession. 

They care not what the world says of them, as 1 
long as they have a clear brain, a willing hand and 
a cheerful way, all leading to true principles, they 
know that honesty riseth above great riches. The 
time is near at hand. We need people of this de- 
velopment, of this kind of character. Follow me 
and I will picture to you a beautiful scene that 
starts from the babe, cradled beside its mother, 
in poverty of surroundings yet rich in mental 
functions that were developed day by day into 
perfection. This child's temperaments were of 
mental capacities. His boyhood life was one of 
sincerity in thoughts, always traveling in just and 
noble pursuits. Year by year he has developed 
in nature's great school, to be good and just, a 
sacrificing spirit of love for them that misused 
him. When he grew to manhood he had devel- 
oped into the greatest teacher the world has ever 
known, the one man of perfection in all channels 
of life, in all the channels of heaven; sacrificing his 
life for the world, to establish a way of resurrec- 
tion. That through him all might live, in the 
spiritual heavens, not made by hands. 



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CHAPTER XXIV. 

ALLOWING OUR MINDS LIBERTY. 

Let us give our mind a few hours liberty, to 
drift where it will. It is now going to the old- 
fashioned mill, the old-fashioned waterwheel, and 
below the mill, the ripples singing lullabies, telling 
of the beautiful scenery it has passed in its jour- 
ney. The beautiful flowers, and trees, and rocks, 
it has seen, its beautiful grassy banks on either 
side, singing nature's songs over and over again. 
Now at sunset our mind is admiring the beautiful 
tints nature has developed, the beautiful land- 
scapes dotted here and there with flowers of na- 
ture's creation. And as sunset has deepened into 
twilight we hear all nature joining together, sing- 
ing that song only familiar to her. We also hear 
the whip-poor-will singing his melodies, seeming 
to chant his praise to something higher than na- 
ture. Our mind drifts on. Now it wanders to the 
little church on the hill, its peculiar architecture, 
its cemetery in the rear. Now we are standing 
beside a grassy mound think now of years gone by, 
— thinking of mother and father. Our mind turns 
back and pictures them once more with us on this 
scene of life. Think of the happiness we once 
enjoyed. Think of our childhood days spent in 
happiness. We see mother as she taught us our 

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evening prayer, watching over us night and day, 
with kind, loving caresses. This the love and 
hope she had in us, that we might grow to man- 
hood and become examples of usefulness. We see 
father with that good book, reading. And now 
he is offering his evening prayer. He is asking 
the great Creator to guide his children in the just 
and right road of honor and justice. Our mind 
turns to the heavens above, the stars seeming to 
see the moon's golden light and the beauty and 
grandure of all nature. Even the flowers seem to 
whisper good-night. Our mind comes back to our 
home, to our studies once more, to settle upon one 
line of thought. Later we retire and have gone 
to sleep, nature's sweet restorer, and our mind 
drifts, we know not where, until our awakening 
seems to come on the wings of time. We cannot 
tell where it is, neither where it goes, it simply is 
not active to our physical and mental body. If 
we live close to the way of nature, we are living 
close to our Creator. His ideality and his sub- 
limity seem to be along the lines of nature. 



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CHAPTER XXV. 

ARE YOU OPPOSED TO EQUAL RIGHTS? 

Men, are you opposed to your mothers taking 
an active part in our politics! Are you opposed 
to your daughters taking an active part in politi- 
cal affairs? Are you opposed to your sisters hav- 
ing a voice in helping to curb the injustices that 
certain classes have to contend with! Are you 
in favor of the special privileges of a certain class 
that are detrimental to the other class! Do you 
believe in tyranny ? Do you believe that money in 
the hands of a few of its citizens should rule and 
govern the masses? Do you think it right to 
allow a citizen to control .certain necessities of life, 
placed here for the benefit of mankind! Do you 
think the money power should keep their slaves 
working more than eight hours a day! Do you 
believe they ought to have eight hours for study 
and recreation! Don't you think they are entitled 
to eight hours for sleep! Do you think the law 
of the government which is eight hours, should 
say all enterprise and business must come under 
the eight-hour system! Do you think that man 
should have all ruling power over woman, keep- 
ing them dependent for existence and measuring 
their brain power and capacity and development 

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to suit his fancy? Don't yon think that nature 
has placed environments here for women as well 
as men! Man and woman are two until the law 
of God and man makes them one. Do you think 
that women are not as honorable as men? Do 
you think women are not as heroic as men? Do 
you think women not as intellectual? Do you 
think that woman was created for a slave for 
man? Do you think you can keep a just cause 
down ? Don 't you think that women should act on 
laws that pertain to things in their home life? 
Don't you think that women should be familiar 
with laws in order to teach them to their children? 
Don't you think the stability of this republic de- 
pends on useful, well-educated children? 

Don't you think that woman's rights is a move- 
ment of the highest type of civilization? Don't 
you think the girls employed in factories and in 
every enterprise all over the country, working for 
an existence, should have a vote? Is there any- 
one who can sincerely oppose all of these ques- 
tions ? If there are such persons, they had better 
cross the salt pond and hunt some semi-civilized 
tribe and attach their ideas to their own, if his 
are worthy to rank with them. We don't need 
narrow-minded, selfish, shallow-brained people in 
this country to dictate high-classed civilization. 
We are looking for broad-minded men and women 
to promote the welfare of our people at large. 

We believe in developing the faculties the great 
God has given us to use. We are not all gifted 

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alike. For an illustration, we know it would be 
impossible for all to develop their faculties into 
being a good poet. In fact, we can't unless we 
are gifted in that certain channel, and there would 
be no use of throwing our valuable time away. 
But use it in a business that we can develop into 
successful pursuits of life. You might say, can 
you prove this theory! Nature proves it every 
day, and it has been proved time and again that a 
person cannot master anything he is not adapted 
to. 



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CHAPTER XXVI. 

MEN IN FAVOR OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS. 

We will admit there are a great many men that 
would enjoy having their wives and daughters 
help in making laws and helping to enforce them. 
They enjoy anything that has a tendency to ele- 
vate civilization in moral ways. Some probably 
might be ministers; they dare not speak their 
thoughts along this line, because, of course, they 
have to preach to suit the people and not take any- 
thing of this nature under consideration. Even 
using of intoxicating drinks is not hit as hard as it 
might be. Another class of men think their 
wives have no right to know their personal af- 
fairs, as long as they provide them livlihood. And 
they don't know any of his business career. Al- 
most in every case this kind of a man would be 
opposed to his wife taking any part in woman's 
rights, or the elevating of anything that is good 
and just. But she must look on and let others go 
ahead to battle for the upliftment of their sex. 
There is still another class of men. I call them the 
selfish class. They dictate what their wives shall 
wear and they do the buying and paying for every- 
thing in the house and out of the house. She has 
no excess to the money matters whatever. He dic- 

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tates to the whole married life. She knows no- 
thing of his personal wealth, it seems she has no 
interest in view. She would not be allowed to 
tolerate the woman's rights movement; she must 
not recognize any charity society; she must live 
each week and year with the same old routine of 
work as simply a servant of man to meet his de- 
mands. Church going is not tolerated by him. 
This life may be all right if the woman believes 
that it is happiness, but you know it would almost 
try the patience of a saint. 

There is another class of men who think they 
are doing right with their family. After working 
hours, supper over, they go to the saloon and fill 
up on alcoholic beverages and after closing time 
they stagger home, not fit to be in company with 
their family. They do this stunt six days out of 
every week and Sunday they are chasing around 
perhaps to some beer party, their wife and family 
not knowing where they are. His wife becomes 
dissatisfied with his life of ignorance and dissi- 
pations, and she leaves him and tries to better her 
conditions. Sometimes she does, but most always 
follows a blighted future. Of course she has been 
almost a saint to live as she did with a man of that 
stamp. And to make up caring nothing for her, 
leaving her at home continually alone. We have 
still another class of men caused by vice. We 
have the kind that cares nothing for their homes 
and family. They are doles and don't care to 
make a livelihood for their wife and family and 
the consequence is the woman has to get out and 

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work. But still if his wife wanted to vote or en- 
courage the woman's rights movement he would 
holler his head off opposing it. We have still an- 
other class. We call it the ideal class. It is the 
man that encourages every movement of his wife 
along the line of woman's rights. He appreciates 
her as a real guiding angel. He is broad-minded 
enough to see it will uplift humanity, uplift civil- 
ization, bring harmony in their homes and adjust 
many wrongs we have to contend with at present. 
He also admires the true principles of equal rights 
to all. He admires her indignations along the line 
of special privileges. He believes in opening up 
new lives into light that have been kept in dark- 
ness, and new ideas to better man and woman in 
swift traveling pace of humanity. He admires her 
disposition of giving words of encourage- 
ment to everything that has the foundation of jus- 
tice. And they travel along in life in harmony, in 
agreeableness and love for each other. And their 
love makes their hearts beat true, enjoying each 
others joys and suffering each others sorrows. And 
as they draw nearer to life's destination they look 
back and think what a beautiful dream is life. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



FACTORY AND WORKING GIRL. 

We see girls and ladies in our factories working 
for existence. Working in the hope that some- 
thing will change their mode of life, hoping 
they will not have to toil year after year with 
no advancement in educational views. They 
are living in thoughts of some higher scene 
of life to follow and the thought of this 
upliftment gives them courage to struggle on for 
existence. They are working for, "give us this 
day our daily bread.' ' If sickness visits them 
they are obliged to go to charitable institutions. 
No kind mother to cheer them and sooth their 
fevered brow. Alone, penniless and their case 
cannot be realized at heart. Her suffering can be 
realized with that deep feeling that a mother has 
for her dear child. Oh, the restless nights a moth- 
er spends. The anxious looks, the many peni- 
tent prayers she offers up to the great Creator for 
the recovery of her child. Just think of it, alone 
and penniless, depending on charity for the care 
she needs to be restored to health. Think of the 
girls working for salaries that don't clothe and 
feed them the way they had ought to. Why is it 
they are not paid enough for their labor. Their 

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boss is not giving them what they earn. We need 
to adjust our laws to the welfare of the women 
as well as some other classes of people. Let us 
have an eight hour system to regulate the women 
as well as men, and a raise in salary in place of a 
decline. God had calculated all should have a 
living on this field of life, and not toil day and 
night for a mere existence. He calculated they 
should have time for recreation and advancement 
in personal welfare. The Creator scores the 
rich man. He knows how he got his wealth. 
As a general rule he got it by the life and sweat 
of the classes that had to work for existence. Can 
he realize this? He can't see it in that light. He 
has an idea that through his mental capacity he 
acquired all his vast possessions. Can he realize 
it is only a matter of time until he will have to un- 
load this vast amount of riches he has gained! 
And when he leaves this scene of life to face the 
creator that tells him a rich man cannot enter the 
kingdom of God, what will be his destiny? The 
riches of this world fade away. Then why not 
live a useful life, setting an example of good deeds 
by doing good deeds and laying up your treasures 
in heaven by benefiting mankind here on this 
scene of life, uplifting them in truth and useful- 
ness, remembering strictly the teacher that came 
here to save the people and taught us a life to live. 
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole 
world and losses his soul. If he piles up great 
riches he is doing it at the depression of mankind 
somewhere, in some channel. He is disobeying 

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the laws of God, he is making himself a tyrant, he 
is making himself use gold and silver as his idol 
which he worships continually. If he did not he 
could see the suffering all around him. He closes 
his ears to the wails of the widow and orphans, 
he closes his ears to the cries of the unfortunate 
and sick, he makes himself feel poor and really 
he is poor in the eyes of God. He is poorer than 
the poorest. As a general thing he has lost the 
last spark of sympathy for his fellow being and 
has grown so narrow minded that he can't realize 
that there are people suffering. He likes to be 
looked upon as the God of this earth, the comman- 
der of mankind, the man that can squeeze the 
masses of the people and whip them into line 
along the line of his hobbies, and takes it for 
granted he is wise because his money controls cer- 
tain conditions. But we have an educational 
view that is growing every day among the gen- 
tler sex and masses that will not stand this tyr- 
anny. They will not let money make our laws to 
benefit money powers, they want laws made and 
enforced to benefit the masses at large. They 
want laws to adjust vices regardless of money 
schemes. They want laws that will look on all 
sides of life as it really is, and laws fitting its peo- 
ple. They want laws that women are personal- 
ly interested in, to adjust and make their life a 
]ife that can help humanity. It is a just and good 
cause regardless of the walks of life or business 
pursuits. 



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CHAPTER XXVIII. 

DIVORCES— SOME OF THEIR CAUSES. 

Why are divorce cases increasing so rapidly. 
There are a great many causes. We will try and 
give some of the causes. One reason is because 
man and woman are not on equal rights. The 
man has superior rights to those of a woman. He 
sometimes uses his rights in his home in a domin- 
ating way to his wife and family. Any religious 
freedom they desire, he sets an example of ignor- 
ance and of infidelity. He sets an example of 
selfishness and roughness of speaking. The wife 
may be of refined thoughts and think she can 
change his ways but alas she cannot. This causes 
a separation and divorce follows. Others start 
out on matrimonial life. The woman not knowing 
his real ability of making her a happy mate. She 
finds they are not the kind that can blend their 
joys and sorrows in love for each other, so they 
agree to disagree and divorce is used to untie the 
knot that has been tied. Other men choose a life 
companion, not studying their dispositions and 
the company she has been keeping. As a conse- 
quence his marriage is a failure. He is dissatis- 
fied and they separate. In the course of time the 
divorce courts adjust matters. Other women mar- 

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ry men who drink. She thinks she can reform 
him and tries all in her power by talking to him 
and pleading with him, but it does no good. He 
keeps on his downward path. He becomes abus- 
ive to her. She can stand this kind of life no long- 
er and leaves him. Another divorce is granted. 
Others start out on the path of matrimony. They 
apparently go along smoothly but suddenly there 
comes a suspicion to the wife. The husband be- 
ing away from home late and later and there is a 
quarrel and hasty words are used. Trouble be- 
gins to rule. A separation is caused and a divorce 
is granted. We see others marry. The man and 
woman, their youthful training has not been de- 
veloped along the good true way of living and 
making life a joy for each other but have drifted 
into that selfish way. Finally bad luck reduces 
them to poverty and a separation is apparent. 
Finally a divorce. We see others as they take the 
vow that makes them united in holy matrimony. 
Vowing to love and protect each other. We see 
the man in some other city or town taking the 
same vow in matrimony and afterward we see a 
divorce, three connected in it. We see other mar- 
riages of people that are not mated to each other. 
The woman's disposition to have her life com- 
panion always with her. She marries a traveling 
man and he is not at home very much of the time. 
She gets dissatisfied with her married life and no- 
tifies him she can no longer love him and requests 
a divorce which in time is granted. We see an- 
other couple start out on the sea of matrimony. 

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She is a woman reared in the luxuries of life and 
educated. He is a common laborer. Their happy 
life is of short duration. His disposition don't 
blend with hers and consequently she gets dissat- 
isfied with a humble life and tells him she can no 
longer live a life of poverty and she goes home to 
her folks and another divorce is granted. We see 
another marriage. The woman marrying to get 
a home, not particular about the love or disposi- 
tion of her companion, not stopping to think of 
his temperaments. After marriage he enforces 
his. dominating spirit in commanding her to do 
things she must do, the things she must wear, the 
things she must cook, the religion she must follow 
regardless of her belief and as a consequence she 
cannot stand a tyrannical companion of this kind 
and this causes a divorce. We see others start 
on the matrimony of life, the woman exhibiting 
a dominating disposition in every channel. She 
commands her husband to do certain things, she 
dictates, she tells him the society he can keep, 
when he can get home, when he can go and if he 
rebels of course she is angry and a squabble in- 
sues. Of course the woman thinks she has been 
misused, she has never been taught to overcome 
that selfish disposition and the separation is the 
next thing with a divorce. We next see a couple 
united in matrimony, the man and woman have 
not studied each other any farther than beauty 
and they have to learn each others dispositions 
and they find themselves astonished in many ways. 
One is a person that loves society and the other 

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does not. The other likes home ties and of course 
they live a different life in dispositions and 
thoughts. They drift along for awhile but they 
soon disagree. This is an important step, choos- 
ing a life companion. We had ought to study the 
ones who are to become a part of our life. Study 
their dispositions, their honor, weigh them up for 
what is in them and if human nature is a judge 
you can select a life companion. Don't choose 
or select out of your class any more than you 
would choose a business or profession you are not 
adapted to, and remember a sacrificing disposi- 
tion will help blend you into a model marriage of 
love for one another. 



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CHAPTEB XXIX. 



STARTING OUT OX THE ROAD OF LIFE. 

The man or woman starting out in life upon the 
broad fields of accomplishment, they will do well 
to remember that will power and confidence in 
themselves are always the right kind of guides 
alp them in their pursuits. Eemember if you 
enter any pursuit doubting your ability to accom- 
plish it. you are a failure before you start. Al- 
ways use all the will power that you have at your 
command, developing stronger and stronger the 
ambition to make a success of your ventures. And 
always nse truth and honorable dealings as your 
watchword and your resolutions will master the 
situation, and will be successful. Eemember the 
will of the young man is like the will of the wind. 
Set your stakes of ambitions high and allow your 
will power to work and battle for that particular 
attainment. How many have made failures of 
different occupations by not having that force of 
ambition developed. In the first place get in the 
right pursuit you are adapted to and use your 
firmness and you will surely succeed. You might 
say how do I know what I am adapted to ? You 
always have some certain faculty you like and is 
a little advanced over the others. It might be 

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music, it might be mathematics, it might be ora- 
tory, it might be imitation, etc. It is a rare case 
that a person makes a success of a business they 
do not like. Sometimes nature turns you to a dif- 
ferent channel of business, different from the one 
you are pursuing. For an illustration. Moody 
was a traveling man selling boots and shoes, but 
nature turned him into an evangelist minister of 
great success. We could name several that na- 
ture has turned to some different pursuit. Our 
surroundings sometimes shape our future. But 
remember if we have will power, force and ambi- 
tion, and we have selected the wrong vocation, na- 
ture will step in and change our pursuit of busi- 
ness. And when nature makes the change remem- 
ber she never makes mistakes. Have you ever no- 
ticed the fine artist? Paintings that nature has 
developed and guided in their blending of colors 
in the fine forms. Every little detail almost per- 
fect to nature. Have you ever noticed the fine 
sculpturer 1 Nature has given him the eye to take 
a piece of marble and chisel it into a fine statue 
almost perfect in appearance in all ways. Have 
you ever noticed the fine poetry written by the 
poets. Nature has guided them in their writing 
and in composing things that were loved by man. 
Their outbursts of joy and their shrieks of 
sorrow, their poems make the heart beat with 
emotion, either in joy or sorrow, their poems 
can turn sadness into joys or joys into sad- 
ness. Always pointing to that divine that is 
in all nature and nature's work. Think you the 

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divine that created all nature admires the crea- 
tion he has made. The lillies of the field, their 
beauty, their station to cheer mankind in his dif- 
ferent pursuits of life, to encourage them in their 
ambitions to battle and conquer all temptations 
that have a tendency to lower the civilization of 
man and woman. Let us enjoy along the path of 
life all the good things nature gives us, and learn 
all the good things nature teaches us. And as 
our lives draw near to the end of the journey, we 
can look back remembering that we have been a 
benefit to mankind in many ways. In the uplift- 
ment of civilization, helping the needy, cheering 
the unfortunate and directing them to follow the 
straight and narrow path that leads to life ever- 
lasting, and shun the broad road that leads to 
everlasting destruction. All nature seems to cast 
sunshine and happiness on us if we live close to 
the divine teachings of the supreme being, allow- 
ing him to guide us in our transactions on this 
scene of life, taking for our prop the word of God 
and by his words be bound and let good deeds of 
our lives be stakes to fence us round. 



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CHAPTER XXX. 

CONTENTMENT OF MIND. 

Contentment of mind means happiness. I care 
not how great a fortune you command, how vastly 
large your earthly possessions may be, if you are 
not contented you are not happy. The man or 
woman living in very humble surroundings, if 
contented, is happy. Some people claim there is 
no happiness on this plane of life. I differ with 
their views. There is happiness in almost every 
thing if we can only see it and feel it. We can see 
it in the sunshine that dances on the streams, as 
they speed on to help form the rivers. We can 
see the happiness of the birds as they sing in the 
tree tops. Why are they singing? It is because 
their joys are bursting forth in melodies of con- 
tentment. We can see happiness in the trees of 
the forests as they are shooting forth leaves to be 
clad in the verdant attire nature has designed for 
them. We can see happiness in rain showers that 
awakens the grass that helps to carpet our earth 
in that beautiful color of green, being in harmony 
with nature. We also see the wild flowers that 
have been planted by God in nature to beautify 
and cheer man and woman on this plane of life, 
trying to teach them in their way, happiness and 

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contentment. We can also see happiness in the 
man and woman that lives a life in respect and 
love to their creator. Their minds are occupied 
with teaching and doing good deeds for the up- 
lifting of everything that is needful to promote 
the thoughts of living for a future existence, of 
eternal happiness that never fades away. 



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CHAPTER XXXI. 



PROMOTE OUR WAYS. 



We should promote the blessings we are placed 
here to receive from the Creator of all things. 
Let us remember anger and pride are both unwise. 
Let us educate and develop our dispositions into 
something of a higher thought, a higher ambition 
to fulfill work which has been placed here for our 
particular calling, always remembering to be kind 
to all you chance to meet and by so doing you 
have gained a point in kindness, also in politeness. 
Show your character to be of a superior class, a 
class that is welcome in almost all circles of life, 
in working in harmony with nature and the laws 
of your creator. ^You can produce thoughts and 
work of a superior kind, work that will cause 
people to realize the necessity of taking care of 
the greatest gift that has been given mankind. 
If you abuse the opportunity to promote your 
gifts in nature you are doing yourself an injustice 
of the worst type. Remember that everything has 
a beginning and you can start a life of nobility, 
actions, thoughts and deeds, always observing 
the teachings of the perfect teacher who always 
had a gentle sacrificing spirit toward everyone. 
Living a life of usefulness, what does it mean? It 

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means to help the needy, encourage those that 
have fallen by pointing out a position in life 
where their energy can be turned into good deeds 
and kind acts that will be an example for some- 
one else that travels in the same road, marking 
out the difficult places to avoid, pointing out the 
downfalls and the rough places. Never put off 
until tomorrow what should be done today, there 
is quite a useful lesson in this motto and in help- 
ing humanity to adjust circumstances this is a 
good thought to keep in view. In thinking over 
our situation and giving it a good broad thought 
it seems to me we need the women connected in 
our political careers as helpers in many ways to 
elevate civilization to the highest class and it is 
a fact that they will try and develop their home 
to a higher and more perfect form of educational 
ways. Our lives and our deeds are an example 
of our characters. vTe may pity the unfortunate, 
we may pity the ones whose life seems to be al- 
most a blank, we may pity those who have almost 
lost hope. Take hope and love out of our lives 
and what have we left ! I think we would have a 
shattered existence. I think it would seem like 
clouds without sunshine. I think it would seem 
like dawn without day. According to the divine 
teaching, we should lift up the fallen, help the 
needy and try and point out a way that leads to 
everlasting joys that penetrate our very soul. Our 
thoughts may be compared to the chaff blown by 
the wind, or they may be as staple as the heavens 
above in doing our duty. Our thoughts can reach 

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out and assist humanity in kind deeds, conveying 
good thoughts to the ones that are weary of life 
and are almost ready to jump into the precipice of 
everlasting shame. Our thoughts and words can 
turn their attention to something that is worth 
living for, something that is a joy forever, some- 
thing that money can't buy, something that ex- 
ists after this earth fades away, something that 
exists in the eternal heavens. 



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CHAPTER XXXTT. 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAX. 

The rain, the sunshine, the trees, the rocks and 
in fact all our surroundings of nature were placed 
here for the purpose of developing the intellect 
of mankind. Men have made use of a great part 
of these natural surroundings. They were placed 
here to develop that unseen part of man, that part 
of man that starts with life, developing from 
birth. Think of the different channels of mental 
development, the many different parts of the 
brain that can be developed, the many different 
parts of the body through the power of the brain. 
All organs, all functions of the body are under 
control of the brain. The functions of the brain 
are explained by thought and mental emotion. 
The mind is divided into feeling and intellectual 
feeling. There are five classes. If we are writing 
our brain dictates through our eyes and hand and 
also forms. If it is friendship, it is dictated by 
our brain in friendly thoughts. If it is self esteem 
our brain dictates our habits. TVe can develop in 
all channels. In memory our brain is the first we 
consult. TThat does nature do for us? If we live 
a life and allow nature to dictate how we should 
live, the most of us would be living altogether 

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different lives in many ways. We would be a 
great deal healthier, if we did not break the laws 
of nature. The diet of man and woman in their 
early history was plain, their attire or clothing 
was very plain, they did not over work themselves 
physically or mentally, they lived free from that 
worry and excitement that shortens lives, they 
did not try to hord up great piles of gold and sil- 
ver, their sleep was as nature dictated. 

If we want to have healthy bodies and healthy 
minds let us travel close to natures teachings. 
Our minds can be made healthier and richer by 
the accomplishment of good deeds. Good deeds 
wake our mind to study and to observe the grand 
good deeds we can do while in this physical life. 
In study our minds become more vigorous and 
healthy. Let us try at all times to control our 
temper, if we get angry let us consider the matter, 
don't act to hastily because we might retreat and 
feel bad afterwards. 

Bad habits are almost all due to ignorance, if 
so let us educate ourselves to remove the cause 
of ignorance and replace it with things like en- 
lightenment. If we are envious of one another let 
us try and turn it into love for each other, and al- 
ways remember a kind word turneth away wrath. 
Let us strengthen ourselves by mental culture, ob- 
serving the good things nature causes to be done 
\vith other parts of nature. 



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CHAPTER XXXIII. 



WHAT IS THOUGHT? 



What is thought! Thought are the foundation 
of all creation of mankind. Our thoughts cause 
us to think of things impossible to mankind, our 
thoughts carry us over great bodies of water and 
great forests, also high mountains and large 
cities. In gazing toward heaven we see 
space. We wonder what space is, we wonder if 
we could find an end to space. Our thoughts 
notice the different arrangements of the stars, our 
thoughts wonder why we cannot see the stars 
in the day time as well as by night. We wonder 
what time is. We wonder about our creator, 
where he originated and so on. We could fill a 
natural life wondering of thought. Thought goes 
to show that our brain is something wonderful. 
Its average in weight is about 49 ounces in a male 
and in a female an average of 45 oz. The average 
cubic inches in a males brain is about 150, the aver- 
age cubic inches in a female is about 120. Of 
course we can develop our brain functions. 



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CHAPTER XXXIV. 

DRINK AND DRUNKENNESS. 

It is the degrading habit that robs you of all 
your moral principles and awakes every unclean 
impluse of your nature. Your brain can see pleas- 
ure in all kinds of meanness and vice. Intoxicat- 
ing drink is the pirate and robber on the great 
seas of life. It robs its victims of all that is dear 
to them, and finally sends their human wrecked 
life to the gulch of everlasting hell. Can we as 
a class of enlightened people remain silent and see 
our loved ones enticed and lured to the alter of in- 
temperance and offer them as a sacrifice to the 
devil ? Can we as a free and liberty loving people 
allow a slavery to exist that robs homes of their 
loved ones, that turns the loving husband into 
a physical wreck, taking from him that love and 
affection that belongs to his family and loved 
ones! Can we remain silent and see our sons and 
daughters travel this damned road of intemper- 
ance ? The tempter lurks in social gatherings and 
surrounds them on every side, and still we allow 
saloons to buy a license. We sell the saloon a 
license to cause the downfall of everything that 
is just and true. We license a traffic through 
whose career families grow up in shame 

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and ignorance. The liquor traffic is the chief 
cause of our divorce evil. Liquor was never 
known to be a peace maker. Liquor is the weap- 
on that is used by the devil to kill his victims. 
Saloons are the delusion of the devil. In passing 
by these places with human captives we imagine 
we can hear the young men and women cry for 
help. They have gone beyond human aid. We 
can imagine we can see the scornful smile of the 
devil as he sends them over the precipice into eter- 
nity to mingle with all uncleanness in the recesses 
of hell and then we think of that vice as folly, 
that has caused hundreds to travel that road lead- 
ing to the morgue. In parts of Africa Christianity 
has not been taught, civilization is unknown to 
the natives. Their worships are in a way of offer- 
ing beasts, and sometimes children on an alter of 
fire to burn them as an offering. We deplore such 
ignorance and call them barbarians and heath- 
ens. And yet our country of high educational 
ways, is allowing thousands of its people to be 
offered as a sacrifice to intemperance. Of course 
this satisfies those who distill and brew the poison- 
ous liquor. They care not for the welfare of the 
people in general. It shows us plainly they value 
wealth above lives. They value wealth above 
justice and honor. Common sense teaches us the 
wrong that exists. One hundred thousand people 
fill a drunkards grave every year. Every one in- 
terested in their brothers or sisters welfare should 
think the matter over seriously and give a helping 

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hand to crush under foot the cause that wrecks 
humanity. 

Our state laws provides that the germ ladened 
drinking cup must go. We must have our own 
individual drinking cup in public places. And 
this law is right but we should do some thing 
about the saloon as a public drinking place. They 
use the same glass for hundreds to drink from. 
We see sickly people drinking at the saloon bar. 
We see people that have cancers drinking at the 
saloon bar. We have a great many classes that fre- 
quent our saloons. If this state law is to check 
the spreading of desease, let us see that they at 
least obey the state laws. Cities that sell license 
to saloons, seem to sell them the right to make 
slaves of its citizens, the right to help fill their 
prisons and jails, the right to cause the downfall 
of woman and to wreck lives. It gives them the 
right to sell liquor that causes murder, insanity, 
suicides and all the crimes that are heir to hu- 
manity. It is not the dead that have filled drunk- 
ards graves that we can do good for, it is the ones 
living that we want to help. We that are living 
demand justice. We want justice in sight of God 
and humanity. We want this slavery caused by 
alcohol to cease. We want men to fight this 
cause. We want women to fight this demon that 
has been a blood sucker of humanity. We need 
the co-operation of those that tolerate honesty, 
justice and freedom. 



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CHAPTER XXXV. 

THE LEADING THOUGHT OF THE TIME AS A GUIDE 
TO MANKIND FINANCIALLY. 

In starting out on a career of life, one of your 
thoughts is of finance. In the first place you have 
the faculties of acquisitiveness fairly well de- 
veloped, that being your highest aim in life re- 
gardless of other faculties. As time goes on and 
transactions are made you will develop it more 
and more. You give up the pleasures of life to 
a certain extent and play at the ambition of your 
life, the play that looks good to you. It is prob- 
able in the line of buying and selling and your 
whole ambition is turned in this certain channel, 
and afterward you branch out in speculation in 
many ways. In making it a study financially, you 
have learned the business fairly well. The ob- 
ject in view to make one dollar double to two dol- 
lars and being very cautious in all risks. Remem- 
ber your whole thoughts and ambition have but 
one end in view. That is along the line of finan- 
cial success. To amass a large sum of money you 
can read in books where John Jacob Aster started 
his immense fortune by trading trinkets to the 
indians for furs, and afterwards opened a musical 
store and after few years he had amassed a good 

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fortune of twenty million. He afterwards in- 
vested it in New York real estate, which is now 
worth to his heirs about three hundred million 
dollars. We might give several accounts of vast 
fortunes accumulated with practically nothing to 
start with, only ambition and a few dollars. I 
would recomend that there is something higher 
than money to struggle for. You know there are 
things that money can't buy, and living a life to 
be at the head of great financers is contrary to 
this teaching. 



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CHAPTER XXXVI. 

HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF AND DEVELOP 
YOUR ABILITY. 

Confidence is a great teacher. Confidence de- 
veloped places you in shape to battle great battles 
in this, our business world. It places you in a 
position to rely on your resources or ability, to 
grasp ideas of personal benefit. It causes man to 
undertake great schemes of advancement. Con- 
fidence causes man to struggle with adversities, 
taking his antagonist apparently by the throat 
and lashing him with his opposing forces. Caus- 
ing him to shiver with indignation and have con- 
fidence in yourself, not allowing any political 
theif to rob you of the advantage of thrift and the 
gifts of nature, which have been bestowed on 
mankind in various ways. Confidence causes man 
and woman to successfully master professions of 
various kinds. Confidence causes us to exist in 
our every day life in harmony with each other. 
Confidence is like the shower is to a dry and 
parched field. Confidence is like sunshine after 
rain. It is the one sweet thought that rules our 
lives and helps to mold our future in noble pur- 
poses. Confidence is the great predominating 
power that rules business in its many channels. 
Confidence causes nations to adjust affairs in har- 
mony and in courtesy to each other. 

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CHAPTER XXXVII. 

ENERGY WASTED BY NOT CONCENTRATING 
FACULTIES. 

It is poor policy to wait for something to pres- 
ent itself to help your certain career in life. When 
you grasp an idea that you think will make you 
some money, or unlift you in any particular way, 
don 't get left by saying I have lots of time to pro- 
mote the idea. For some one else will think of 
the same idea and push it and get the money and 
you are left out in the cold in that certain idea. 
A man remarked I have an object in view that 
will bring me a neat little sum of money. Perhaps 
he was right. He dreamed about it being a good 
proposition but he never attempted to promote it 
and of consequence he lost his opportunity. It is 
a poor business career to idle your thoughts and 
see somebody else get the money. Don't try to 
do something that you are not adapted to. If you 
do you will regret it by failure. Many young men 
are induced to follow certain professions by their 
parents or someone else, choosing the one they 
think they would like. I say young man don't 
make the mistake of allowing someone to choose 
your profession. You know better how to select 
your vocation, the one you have a liking for, for 

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you cannot make a success of a business you dis- 
like. So use the business you like and show natu- 
ral talent in making your choice. Nature has 
pointed out in some channel the business you 
should pusue. Don't be misguided by anybody 
else if you want to get to the heights of perfection. 
It is absolutely useless to try and work against 
nature. You might take up poetry, writing or 
sculpture work or artistic painting, but if you are 
not adapted to that certain business you will 
never get to the top of the ladder or profession. 

Every beginner has to travel the road to suc- 
cess or failure and it is very essential for us to 
select the right vocation or the right channel of 
life to pursue. We see some that are handy at 
a good many things. This particular person in 
choosing a vocation might choose the wrong busi- 
ness, but nature sometimes steps in after years of 
struggle and points out his right vocation, and he 
soars to the height of perfection in a short time. 
There are too many people working at their wrong 
vocation, that is one reason they don't make a 
success of their business pursuits. The great and 
All Wise created everything for some purpose. 
When you try to ignore nature, you have a pro- 
position on hand you never can complete. We 
see every day professions that are misused. We 
see every day people that are struggling to mas- 
ter professions they are not adapted to. We see 
them struggle until failure puts them out of their 
career. 

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CHAPTER XXXVIII. 

GOOD AND BAD LUCK NOT CONTROLLED BY MANAGE- 
MENT. 

Many people fail because they don't thoroughly 
establish the right ideas of carrying on a business. 
Hence they fail, calling it bad luck. In starting 
a business always study your proposition well, 
look over the field you expect to work, put all 
your energy and thought into this certain line 
and chances are you will have what is termed 
good luck. You will find that you will be met 
with the keenest competition many times. If you 
become known as a broad-minded man, the popu- 
larity of dealing with a person of that kind will 
help you master the situation and make many 
friends and acquaintances which will be beneficial 
to your career, and good luck will not only smile 
on you, but will snicker right out. Sometimes 
persons are discouraged because their success has 
been very slow, their expenses and profits are run- 
ning a race to see which will come out victorious 
at the end of the year, and they become dissatis- 
fied just at the time the business profits are mak- 
ing the expenses look sick, and the man that 
bought the business says he has good luck. We 
all like to do well, make money and be happy. 

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We chase even the horizon to be happy, and if 
we hunt it in the right place we can find it, the 
world has no sympathy with disappointed people. 
They have no time to argue their ups and downs 
of their particular life. They look at things in 
this light; "laugh and the world laughs with 
you, ' ' " weep and you weep alone. ' ' And don 't go 
out in search of trouble because you will always 
find it. Sometimes in mysterious ways, sometime 
it would never crop out if not being molested. 
In order to be successful take the business you are 
adapted to, grasp the opportunity that will better 
your conditions and endeavor to do a straight 
upright business, seizing means to jump in and 
take hold of your business and make it pay good 
returns. 



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CHAPTER XXXIX 

CONCENTRATION OP FORCES AND FACULTIES AS A 
BUSINESS REGULATOR. 

f 

Concentrate your thoughts to one certain pro- 
fession or business. If your thoughts are divided 
in several channels of enterprise, they will be 
certainly weakened. No man can master all pro- 
fessions successfully. All successful persons have 
found their right vocation. Study yourself and 
learn the pursuit of life you are adapted to fol- 
low to make the greatest success. It may be 
music, oratory, invention, etc. The drunkard 
is insulting his real self and some day will be re- 
paid in scorn. Regulate your dealings with all 
the spirit of confidence in one another to promote 
the highest ideas of brotherhood in personal wel- 
fare. A self sacrificing moment spent in adjust- 
ing our brothers' thoughts to the right and just 
way of living a life of usefulness, would be well 
spent. 



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CHAPTER XXXX. 

THE HIGH DEVELOPMENT OF ACQUISITIVENESS. 

Acquisitiveness is the faculty to acquire wealth 
and knowledge. A person with this high marking 
is very careful to save and hoard and accumulate 
wealth and knowledge. This faculty generally 
shows whether we are a spendthrift or a person 
that will economize. Some of our great financers 
have, no doubt, developed it to its greatest capa- 
city. Acquiring wealth has become a dangerous 
factor in the lives of some of our fellow citizens. 
When a man acquires a vast amount of wealth so 
that it is no longer a benefit to humanity, it is a 
dead one to even the person commanding it. It 
seems to show a selfish disposition to hoard more 
than you need. If the exploiter should turn in his 
way, while he has yet time, he might benefit hu- 
manity by using it in ways of charity, helping the 
downfallen, helping them that are afflicted, in all 
manners of ways, using it to elevate the unfor- 
tunate into a life that they may live in cheerful- 
ness and hope of the future. I would prefer 
laying up my treasurers in heaven, and when I 
am called to the other side of life, I can respond 
to death in more of a cheerful spirit. We brought 
nothing with us when we came into life, neither 
can we take anything out of it in the shape of 
wealth. 

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CHAPTER XXXXI. 

INHERITED WEALTH NOT PROOF OF SUPERIOR 
ABILITY. 

We can travel from city to city and see men in 
pomp and pride, who have inherited their wealth. 
But if they had to gain a livelihood by their abili- 
ty, they would be placed in a different scene of 
life. We also measure a man's ability by the de 
velopments he has acquired. Take it from me, 
the self made man is the broad minded one on the 
stage of life today. He plays his part of the 
scenes with great confidence in himself and his 
ability to make good. Take for an illustration 
the professional man. If in his adopted profes- 
sion, he cannot make a failure. How about in- 
herited wealth. If he should lose it what would 
he do ? What resources would he turn to ? Picture 
if you can his situation. Wealth gone and as a 
general thing friends gone, and loosing his 
wealth and then his friends gives him a still hard- 
er task to be borne. Some loose confidence in 
themselves altogether, and go through life with- 
out any aim only to drift along day by day. But 
we may say to that class, cheer up brother, don't 
grieve, that won't adjust matters, that won't bet- 
ter your conditions. Study yourself, and develop 
confidence and firmness and build yourself up as a 
self-made man, entering into the pursuit you fol- 
low with determination to win. 

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CHAPTEE XXXXII. 

THE STUDY OF HUMAN NATURE AS A HELP IN BUSI- 
NESS. 

Development in reading Iranian nature is a 
great benefit in almost every branch of business. 
Take it in selling goods as a traveling salesman. 
Human nature is one of the studies that should 
- :I to its highest capacity, learning to 
read your prospective customer with the greatest 
of ease, in knovdng how to approach him to get 
the best results and a continuance of patronage 
Remember there are no two persons exactly the 
same in every detail. Also in dealing in 
real estate you need a force of thought and 
understanding of human nature combined in or- 
der to bring the best results. In teaching in 
our schools the teachers should have the faculty 
of reading her or his pupils. They will find it 
much easier in handling them successfully and 
in bringing about results that otherwise would 
be almost a failure in the many dispositions 
they have to contend with in maintaining har- 
mony and interest. The speaker needs to develop 
the faculty of reading human nature, also force 
of thought. Knowing how to hold the attention ■:: 
his audience and how to keep the respect of all 

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of them. Knowing how to approach them on 
various subjects. He will use a trained and cul- 
tured voice, showing them that his thoughts are 
of a sincere origin. The use of the greatest sim- 
plicity in speech will always command attention, 
in this way bringing about a concentration of 
thought that will meet with the greatest approval. 
Human nature is a great faculty. It causes 
us to get acquainted with each other quick. It 
causes us to confide our personal affairs to one an- 
other. A person developed in the highest capac- 
ity of reading human nature is blessed with one 
of the greatest blessings bestowed on mankind. 
In looking into your eyes, which is sometimes 
called into the windows of the soul, they can al- 
most penetrate your very thoughts, your charac- 
ter and your disposition and by blending your 
other faculties they can tell the pursuit you 
should follow to attain the greatest success in life. 



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CHAPTER 



PROCRASTINATION THE THIEF OF TIME. 

Time is money. Do not spend your time in idle 
thoughts. Do not spend your time in idle gossip 

about your neighbors. Always remember the 
poor boy of today may be the rich man of tomor- 
row. TVhat are riches? A clear brain, a noble 
spirit, cheerful thoughts, a happy existence, 
these are riches that gold and silver cannot 
buy. Pennies make dollars, dollars make gold, — 
if you take care of the pennies when young, they 
will take care of you when old. The writer does 
not mean, using the slang phrase that one should 
be a tightwad. Don't waste your golden opportu- 
nities. Always place your deeds of charity where 
they will do the most good at the right time. It is 
said time and tide wait for no man. When you 
have anything to do don't put it off until tomor- 
row, if you can do it today. And count that day 
lost whose low descending sun views from thy 
hands no worthy action done. Always remember 
patience and perseverance are the mothers of good 
luck. And you are the sculptor that shapes your 
future. Don't spare any energy. Use all the 
faculties God hath given you to develop into some 
career that will be a great blessing to yourself, 

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your friends and country. There is the chisel 
and marble, take them and work them to thy will, 
they alone must shape thy future. Heaven will 
give the strength and skill, and when working 
your way toward the heights of perfection, don't 
forget to scatter kind words and good deeds all 
along your path. They will be appreciated by 
others. 



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CHAPTER XXXXIV. 

BUSINESS SUCCESSES ALONG THE LINE OF PHRENOL- 
OGY AS A GUIDE. 

From the foundation of the world business has 
been the controlling interest of mankind. It 
causes men to risk their lives upon the seas. It 
causes men to go down in the bowels of the earth 
in search of gold , silver and precious metals, also 
diamonds and other precious stones. It causes 
men to make areoplane ascensions. It brings men 
and women together, and towns and cities are 
built. Business clears the wilderness and causes 
it to blossom like the rose, bringing men into 
friendly relations with each other. Business is 
the one great predominating power that controls 
mankind. Business as a phrenological line or 
guide causes the development of mankind in all 
professional careers. It causes man to put asunder 
what God has joined, namely law and justice. It 
causes man to bridle the elements and they do his 
bidding. It causes man to speak and his voice is 
heard thousands of miles away. The wind and 
the waves are brought to his command. And as we 
travel upon this plane of life let us endeavor to 
do some good for our fellow men either in busi- 
ness or in justice. Let us help our weaker brother 

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in some way that may be a benefit to his welfare, 
and by so doing we may develop our intellect 
along the rngged road of life, and he may sojourn 
in gladness and hope. If we are blessed with 
business ability that we have acquired by devel- 
opment, let us at least remember the unfortunate. 



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CHAPTER XLV. 

CAUTION— TO USE IT A3 IX BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS 

Be cautious in all your dealings with mankind. 
Be sincere in thoughts and actions. Always think 
of those that have your- welfare at heart hoping 
you will start on the right business pursuit, the 
business that will elevate you in knowledge and 
justice. Let honesty be the highest peak of your 
admiration, that it may be carried down to the 
billowy depth of time, and you have lived a life 
of honor to yourself, your country and friends. 
Don't travel along the ruts of life and participate 
in their follies. Be cautious that you set your 
hopes of ambition high: concentrate all your fac- 
ulties of physical and mental power that the gift 
nature has bestowed upon you may be developed 
to its highest capacity of usefulness. Be cautious 
in choosing a companion for life so that your mar- 
riage vows will not be broken. Choose a com- 
panion whose love and affection may be blended 
;,rmony with yours, so that you may travel 
lifes road of usefulness together in sincerity of 
thoughts and actions. 



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CHAPTER XL VI. 

WILL POWER OF CHARACTER AS A PREDOMINATING 
FORCE OF AMBITION. 

Will power is one of the greatest faculties that 
is commanded by man. In any line of business or 
any undertaking the will says I am going to suc- 
ceed. In choosing any professional business, re- 
member that will power and force of ambition are 
the leading faculties that will win success for 
you. When you try to travel the road to highest 
accomplishments, remember that you will meet 
with many obstructions, that may cause you to 
almost drop your undertakings. But here is 
where your will power steps in and asserts itself 
saying, forcibly, I am the one that will accomplish 
this profession, I am the one that will master this 
situation, and you can think how near you were 
to the precipice of failure, and remember that 
will power played a strong part in your certain 
channel of life. When you use will power as a 
predominating force, you will always find you 
have something that laughs at adversities, chal- 
lenges depression and is ready anytime to meet 
them in the open field of business. Remember that 
will power is the will of the mind. It raiseth above 
envy, and brings harmony and justice in the front 

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ranks of our lives. As a useful benefactor of man- 
kind, in business or any line of enterprise that we 
may launch into, let us fulfill. Use your will pow- 
er in beginning a business. Set your mark high 
and strive to realize your ambitions, and if you 
fall a little short of your mark, you have lived 
a successful career at any rate. "Make hay when 
the sun shines" is a good motto, and in business 
ways do business when opportunity presents its- 
self favorable. Learn the value of good business 
methods and use them. Study the conditions of 
your business, study your customers, and allow 
them to know that your motive is to please, and 
success is yours. 



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CHAPTER XLVn. 

A DUEL BETWEEN ENERGY AND LAZINESS. 

In taking up this topic we will give energy a 
chance to display some of its points in various 
ways. In the first place energy is the motive 
power that moves this business world. It searches 
to the highest heights for information that may 
be a benefit to mankind. It goes to the bowels of 
the earth, not alone for information, but for 
precious metals and commodities that are required 
as a necessity for the existence of mankind. En- 
ergy never recognizes laziness. They are sepa- 
rated from each other. They never can be 
blended in a sucessful business career. They are 
working in opposition in thought to each other. 
Energy cuts down the forest, builds cities, opens 
up new developments to mankind. Energy climbs 
to the heights of all adventures, and turns our 
lives into usefulness. Energies are not fancies 
but realiies . Energy never makes a wish of riches 
and waits to see if it will come true. Energy 
makes it a rule to concentrate thoughts in busi- 
ness, while attending to business. It cares not 
whether for yourself of others. You cannot mix 
love and energy very well. Try and concentrate 
your energies while in business to that particu- 

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iar point, and your energies in love affairs in that 
particular channel. To command a good profes- 
sion is a good thing, to command a bad profes- 
sion is worse than nothing. Energy takes pride 
in traveling the rocky road to sucess. Energys' 
companion is success. They travel in harmony, 
sharing each others ' joys, and their downfall is 
a rare occurrence. They are always busy analyz- 
ing the cause and effects of different transactions 
at home or abroad. Energy is always a welcome 
visitor in the society of cheerfulness, sincerity and 
harmony. And so we see that energy plays a 
part of life that nothing else can do and it plays 
a part to procure in that life beyond, a part to 
call the attention of all to secure a home of ever- 
lasting bliss. Laziness is a hard proposition to 
contend with as a business regulator. It is the 
companion that goes hand in hand with failure. 
It is the companion that is never recognized by 
good luck. Its earnings are always below par. 
Laziness never was known to develop anything 
of note. Always of slouchy appearance, and yet 
it is a word to express our condition in business 
careers and as a personal factor. Laziness is not 
recognized by the educated element of mankind. 



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CHAPTER XLVIIL 

HOW TO SELECT A COMPANION ALONG THE LINE OF 
MATRIMONY. 

In selecting a mate in matrimony you should 
be very careful in many ways. In the first place 
don't select a mate you cannot be mated with in 
temperaments, character, self esteem and firm- 
ness. If you can see human nature blending in 
you different faculties, you may be safe in taking 
his or her for a matrimonal compenion. If you 
choose at random you are likely to make a mis- 
take. It is just as essential in marriage as it is 
in choosing the right pursuit of business. When 
choosing a business, choose the one you are natu- 
rally adapted to make the greatest sucess of. In 
matrimony choose the one you can be mated to in 
agreeableness. People take many steps in life, 
but this step should be studied well because it 
most always marks the destiny of either man or 
woman. People are beginning to think a little 
more seriously of this marriage question. It 
means a life of happiness or a life of misery or 
divorce. It is not money that makes happiness. 
Sometimes money helps but it is usually love and 
true affection that makes a happy life. Sacrific- 
ing to one another, suffering each other sorrows, 

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sharing each others joys, and living a life of use- 
fulness and truth to each other and in reverence 
to their creator. Eemember the teachings of the 
great teacher. And for this cause shall a man leave 
father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they 
shall be one in flesh, and what therefore God has 
joined together let no man put asunder. * 



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CHAPTER IXL. 

BRAINS AS A WORKING CAPITAL. 

If you develop your brain you have a working 
capital in many ways. There are many ways to 
develop the functions of your brain. You can de- 
velop it in music, oratory, poetry, and construct- 
iveness of many kinds. Take the particular 
branch you are adapted to and make it a work- 
ing capital. If there is any particular business 
you are adapted to, develop in that line and by so 
doing you have a working capital of brains. Work 
along that certain profession, climb higher and 
higher to the heights of fame and remember there 
is always a market for the products of your brain 
in all lines. You don't have to hunt a market for 
your product but people will hunt you up in search 
of something they want in your certain channels 
of business. Brains are the leading capacity of 
all fine paintings, of all fine poetry, all fine sculp- 
ture work and in fact everything is the pursuit of 
brains. Brains are researching into everything at 
present and finding numerous thoughts and ideas 
that can be bettered and made plainer to the world 
in general. Searching in the depths of the earth 
for gold and silver or prospecting for other 
minerals. Brains have turned the wild coun- 

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tries into a vast strip of beautiful and useful homes 
of civlization. The development of brains means 
to increase in beautifying and becoming more use- 
ful year after year. Brain is the power that helps 
to shape our future in many ways, in shaping our 
lives to be an ideal of usefulness to our country, 
to our brothers and sisters and all humanity. 
Brains show us the good life to pursue in all pur- 
suits that are in harmony with justice. Remem- 
ber we should us brains in our everyday walk of 
life. Brains develop a polite way to address our 
fellow beings and show courtesy to those that 
differ in our views on different ideas. It has power 
to make us think we don't know it all. We are 
adapted for some certain channel of life. Let us 
use our brain in getting into the right place. Let 
us use our brain in procuring a place after we 
leave this life, by doing the work we are requested 
to do bv the divine instructor. 



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CHAPTER L. 

OPPORTUNITY: A DISCUSSION OF PERSONAL 
WELFARE. 

Opportunity sometimes is the stepping stones 
of success in its many branches. There are people 
whose intellect or talent cannot be disputed. Their 
surroundings may have been unfavorable in their 
early career, but their keen perception of develop- 
ment has brought them to the front ranks of great 
men and women. Opportunity lets us branch out 
in the development of our natural talent, to per- 
ceive the cause and effect of different transactions 
and take advantage of the shrewdness they posess. 
If you want to grasp opportunities, don't wait for 
opportunity to grasp you. Launch out on the 
broad fields of success and failure and show what 
kind of motives you are governed by. Disregard 
the advice of the old fogies that advocate, let well 
enough alone. His advice might have been good 
in some stations of life, but at this stage of devel- 
opment we have got to go forward in business or 
otherwise retreat into the line of back numbers. 
This is a progressive age in industries and educa- 
tion. This is an age where we can realize that 
time and tide wait for no man. Don't try to sus- 
tain your business on people's sympathies. It is 

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not a good business method. Diligence in your 
business pursuits, grasping the opportunity to 
turn loss into profit, is the motive you need for 
success. Some people have great imaginations 
and visionary ideas. Sometimes the greatest suc- 
cesses and most enterprising business is prompted 
by this class of individuals. They take a chance on 
imaginary opportunities. Of course some of them 
have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The 
idea of being content, when you can better your 
condition, is a thought of but little value. Oppor- 
tunity offers a hustler in many business lines a 
broad field to develop in. It is easy to stand and 
see men advance step by step in life's career, see 
them gain the heights of success in different pro- 
fessions, but to know the real work they have done 
is to follow their footsteps in gaining what they 
have in cultured ways. Opportunity throws in 
your way material to analyze, to promote, to de- 
velop, in many ways to make a great success. But 
you are the particular person that must grasp the 
idea to promote them. Opportunity is waiting in 
all directions for someone to grasp an idea and pro- 
mote it to usefulness for mankind, to save labor, 
to prolong life, to lay down rules to live a happy 
life. The ideal man and woman in all branches 
of today is in a shipwrecked condition. There 
is some certain part of life they have neglected. 
Some of them feel they have neglected some of the 
essential parts of life. To be classed as an ideal 
person in all branches of life, we may in some cer- 
tain channel of life be classed at the heights of 

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perfection, but may be deficient in other channels. 
If we can live as life really is, it would benefit 
mankind. Opportunity reaches out in a great 
world of literary work describing the development 
of mankind, also the downfall of men. The work 
intellectual men and women describing their joys 
and portraying their sorrows. How they by their 
mastered will power, have climbed the ladder of 
fame, and achieved great honor in public life. 
How they have striped the cloud of everything but 
its silver lining, and showed themselves a model 
of lifes usefulness. Not only in their public life, 
but in their home circle they have pointed out bet- 
ter ways, and conditions. They have used their 
influences to promote them and bring them about 
in harmony to all opportunities and have robbed 
worry of its burden in many ways. Opportunity 
is striving to bring about conditions that reach to 
all parts of the civilized world, causing the dove 
of peace to settle and dwell unmolested and in har- 
mony to all. Opportunity gives you a chance to 
deliver tidings of joy and messages of love to the 
ones afflicted with sickness and misfortune. Op- 
portunity points out the needy, and those that 
need a kind word to encourage them in the strug- 
gle of life, helping to turn their lives into sun- 
shine and useful pursuits. 



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CHAPTER LI. 

THE MEANING OF HOME. 

The home may be very humble. It may picture 
the sight of poverty or it may be the sight of 
plenty and luxuries, but it is a place that brings 
back the memories of the past. In our childhood 
days our minds think of the joys we experienced, 
and the gleeful times we had . We were looking 
forward to the time we would be grown up men 
and women building great imagionary castles of 
what we would do. Our minds seemed to wander 
to stately mansions of quaint architecture and to 
the hovel of plain and rude build. Our minds each 
have different views of pleasure and happiness. 
Some of us loved to ramble in the timber and gath- 
er wild flowers or ramble along the cliffs and gath- 
er wild honeysuckles. Happiness seemed to reign 
supreme in our lives. We loved our homes and 
were contented to grow up to fill useful positions 
in life. We almost all remember the love in our 
childhood days. The love mother and father had 
for us, the anxiety they felt when they thought 
we might get in danger, and after years when we 
left the old home and launched out on the broad 
fields of active business life, they had an anxious 
thought concerning our welfare. They hope we 

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will not pursue a business that will lower our mor- 
al character. They hope our walk in life will be 
one of useful pursuits, hoping we will be guided 
by the good thoughts of our hearts and cast away 
any evil thoughts that might try to lower our 
moral deeds. Home, it don't make any difference 
of the hardships or the poverty, it is a word and 
thought we can't replace outside of heaven. Home 
is the blending of love and happiness. The mother 
or wife with that never tiring love and affection 
and the man with the real faith and charity, these 
make a home anywhere. Home is the real founda- 
tion of civilization. The home may be very plain, 
it may very humble, but it is the real love and 
kindness and charity that makes it a home of 
Gods creation. A home that we dwelleth within 
and the hearts of the inmates. How quickly we 
notice the home of the person that is of a kind 
disposition and having a good word for all, caus- 
ing sunshine and happiness to spread its joys all 
around . How quickly we notice this is the voice 
of the inner soul, how quickly we notice in the 
eyes that truthful look, that confidence they ex- 
press. We may have stately mansions, we may 
have a vast amount of wealth and property, but 
this does not mean we have an ideal home. An 
ideal home means a home after this world fades 
away. A home that is prepared for those that live 
and obey the teachings of the creator. When we 
see the word home, it brings many thoughts to 
our mind. We think of the short visit we have on 
this earth. We in reality can't call it our home, 

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we can only call it our stopping place. Our life 
is like the seasons of the year only a little longer 
in time. The real home is not what we acquire 
with our hands, it is what we acquire with our 
hearts in doing deeds of charity to save humanity. 
Can there be a home without happiness? Not a 
real home. There might be a mockery of home. 
Home means all the pleasures of life; it means all 
the pleasures after life; it means a continuity of 
life; it means a never ending life of happiness in 
spiritual abode. 



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CHAPTER IH. 

WOMEN'S STRIKES. 

Professor David Edgar Rice, the famous psy- 
chologist, explaining the failure of Chicago's 
police women along the lines where they were 
supposed to be most useful, their failure to handle 
the recent strikes of women there, calls attention 
to some of the most fundamental principles of the 
psychology of sex. We should pay heed to the 
remarkable discoveries they made, before more 
serious mistakes occur. We sympathize with his 
opinion in some cases, but is it not a question to 
be discussed of cause and effect. The cause might 
be attributed to not having experience in this 
specific business. We can hardly expect a woman 
police force to do as well as men, even in hand- 
ling their own sex, and until they are trained 
by experience. This business is new to them, 
and we can hardly expect them to govern and con- 
trol women or men in strikes or many other situa- 
tions that may arise until they have developed into 
this certain channel as police women. There is 
hardly any one man or women that gains the 
heights of perfection without development in their 
certain career. 

Professor Rice said the ten police women were 

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appointed because it was believed that they would 
be more gentle and tactful in handling women 
upon the streets, and other places. It was be- 
lieved that a woman could lock up a rioting 
woman, just as a mother would take a daughter 
home. To my opinion whoever appointed them 
should take in consideration that women would 
meet with opposition as women police. One rea- 
son, not being accustomed to seeing them as 
officers. It will take a long time to educate the 
public into respecting the police women in times 
of strikes. In fact, the men upon the police force 
most always find they have something to do in 
times of strikes and riots. Human nature teaches 
us that if the women police expects to command 
respect in their career they must insist on being 
obeyed just the same as men have done, regardless 
of sex. Women respect the male police. They 
have been taught to do this and they will have to 
be taught to respect the women police. As a mat- 
ter of fact, women will have to respect their super- 
iors in law. regardless of sex. In his writing Pro- 
fessor Rice said, as a matter of fact, the police 
woman use more violence with their own sex than 
ordinary policemen would have done. It was be- 
lieved that law-breaking women would yield more 
peaceably to officers of their own sex than to men. 
As a matter of fact, they resisted the police women 
more fiercely than if they had been policemen. I 
think under existing conditions they will have to 
be a little more forceful. The striking women at 
present does not recognize woman police. In his 

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writing he referred to the police women as being 
chosen according to their weight and brawn. One 
of them, Mrs. Anna M. Morrison was an accom- 
plished heavy-weight lifter. My idea of a police 
woman is that they need brain power more than 
weight and muscles in acting in time of strikes 
or riots. She will have to be educated along this 
certain channel, and experience will help teach 
her, of course. It would be impossible for women 
to take the place of men in all branches of law, 
until that is, they further develop into that line of 
business. They should not be expected to change 
from a common pursuit of everyday life to that of 
police woman, and be proficient in that business. 
It will take time to adjust circumstances of this 
nature, but at least the women should vote upon 
questions and have the opportunity of developing 
into office holders in the various departments of 
the government. 



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CHAPTER LIII. 



DOLLARS AND DIMES. 



America has been called the home of dollars 
and dimes. It has been said that the people are 
cold and heartless, especially the wealthy class. 
It may be so in some cases, but we have a class of 
people that have shown their sympathy by deeds 
of charity towards the unfortunate, not only help- 
ing them in a financial way but have helped to 
broaden their views of life. They have pointed 
out a way to the unfortunate that they might pros- 
per in this life, and the life, over the way. We 
have heard it remarked that America is the home 
of dollars and dimes and that poverty is looked 
upon as the worst of crimes. There may be some 
people of this thought, but as a general rule the 
most of the people are in a position to remember 
that their forefathers that settled this wildnerness, 
being in a financial way in poverty but rich in that 
daring . And they gave willing hands in building 
homes, homes that would lead them to freedom, 
freedom in thought, freedom in religious worship, 
where they could breathe the pure air of freedom 
and take hold of opportunities in a free and wel- 
come way. They built their log houses and en- 
joyed the pleasure of having a home. They have 

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grown under that thought of freedom from the 
foundation of this government until the present 
day. Of course at the present day it is harder to 
regulate our freedom in some certain channels. 
One reason is that people have come to abuse 
their freedom, by making it an obstruction to the 
advancement of civilization in some certain chan- 
nels of business. But the advancement and pro- 
gress of invention are in the lead, throwing aside 
the old methods of civilization and replacing 
them with modern ways in many forms. We may 
be looked upon as the home of dollars and dimes, 
but as a general rule the people are of a generous 
disposition, generous in ways of gaining an educa- 
tion. As a rule they don't approve of either idle- 
ness of brain or idleness of hand. They have no 
time for the persons who tries to tear down and 
lay at waste the gifts God hath given them to 
develop. 

We cannot sum up the wealth of this country in 
dollars and dimes. In the long run we must take 
into consideration the characters and brains of 
our sons and daughters. The stability of this 
country and government depends upon their train- 
ing. That means we should do away with the 
menace of employing child labor in factories and 
other places. They are not yet fitted for such 
work. Their time should be used in the develop- 
ment of brain and health that they will need in 
after years. The great God hath given them the 
intellect to develop into useful men and women. 
If they are kept in factories and similar places 

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they are losing the chance of developing into 
broad-minded men and women. Not only this, 
their lives are blighted, their brain turned away 
from educational development. Some old fogies 
say our children enjoy too many liberties, they are 
being spoiled in their childhood. They cannot 
have too much liberty if it is in a good moral way, 
and our memories when we are grown in recalling 
a happy childhood bring to us one of the sweetest 
dreams of life. Then let the children have a happy 
time in a good, moral way, and let us remove the 
temptation and stumbling stones of after years. 
The saloon that surrounds our very doors causing 
untold numbers of bright young men and women 
to fill drunkards graves. This is one freedom that 
has been abused. This is a freedom that allows 
a stronger class to prey on a weaker class. Liquor 
is the drink that causes people to lose their will 
power. It causes them to lose self-respect. It 
benumbs their brain and makes them stupid. It 
drives all the good thoughts, of kindness and re- 
spect for each other, from existence. 



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CHAPTER LIV. - 

WHY NOT PLANT A LIFE GARDEN. 

In our youth, or springtime of life, let us plant 
a garden of beautiful thoughts, such as will bud 
and blossom forth into sunshiny words, sunshiny 
deeds, and actions. Let us cultivate their exist- 
ence, that they may grow and that their foliage 
may shelter us in time of sorrow, and tribulations. 
We must learn to love these thoughts. They are 
worthy of our love. We must study them con- 
tinually. It should be a joy to us to see them 
thrive, growing in strength and beauty. We must 
water them with patience, and cultivate them with 
smiles. We must greet their happy existence 
morning, noon and night. We must watch over 
them and protect them, lest, enemies destroy them. 
We must work for their development in strength 
and beauty, and when you present some of your 
garden thought to your friends, they may sincere- 
ly exclaim, how beautiful, how grand, and sub- 
lime! 

They may say beautiful thoughts are the roses 
of life, and as your life travels, in time you may 
give everyone you meet a beautiful thought-rose 
that will cheer them on their way, brightening 

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their pathway. And the recollection of you ana 
yonr thought from your thought garden, will long 
long be remembered, and after your thought gard- 
en has ripened in age, when the time comes to 
gather seeds, you will be remembered by the peo- 
ple because you have strewn life with thought 
roses from your own garden, thoughts that have 
turned clouds into sunshine, thoughts that have 
turned sadness into joy, thoughts that have helped 
to lift the fallen and point out to them the follies 
of life. Your thought garden has caused gleams 
of sunshine to penetrate into the darkest lives and 
caused them to accept a thought from your gar- 
den. Some of your thoughts have caused the 
drunkard's wife to cease weeping for the one she 
loved and have been the cause of a husband's re- 
turn to the wife in affection, love denouncing the 
life of dissipation. In your garden of thoughts 
you have helped to turn hatred into love. You 
have caused the two that God has joined together 
and are upon the brink of separation, to unite in 
friendship for each other. Your garden of 
thoughts has done the world a great amount of 
good in many ways. It has taught many people 
to turn to a life of light, and keep out of the ruts 
of sin, and to follow the commandments of the 
Saviour, and lead a true and noble life. If we 
could all plant a thought garden in our hearts, 
planting thoughts of love, friendship, charity and 
hope, we would be certainly living under ideal 
circumstances. Development along this line will 
do wonders. The devil will lose his power to 

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prey on the people of this world. This thought 
garden will cause us to broaden our views, and 
remember that we are not living for ourselves ex- 
clusively. We would be living to help our weary 
brother and sister. We would give them a help- 
ing hand and a kind word to cheer them on toward 
a higher life. Always remember, if you give a 
good thought, you will have plenty more at your 
command. If we can strew good thoughts broad- 
cast, they will gain foot somewhere, and grow and 
thrive in good deeds and actions. 

We can class good thoughts as spiritual love 
from our inner self. We can class evil thoughts 
as the weapons of the devil. When you plant a 
a thought in the mind of someone, a good religious 
thought, you may be planting the stepping 
thought for a career of grandeur and nobility. In 
this garden of beautiful thoughts we can also 
cherish beautiful memories of the loving deeds 
others have accomplished. In many homes it has 
awakened the true relation that should govern the 
home, in harmony to the Creator, and with love 
for each other. 

It has awakened that thought of politeness and 
sincerity, a sacrificing spirit for one anoth- 
er, speaking the truth at all times. We have 
planted thoughts that have reached our friends, 
and as we stand beside their bier taking the last 
look at their form, we may recall sweet memories 
of the useful life they have fulfilled and lived on 
this earth, the many good deeds, they have accom- 

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plished. We can only recall sweet memories of 
the deeds they have done, sweet memories of the 
life of usefulness they have led and their example 
of truth and purity, the sunshiny thoughts, of liv- 
ing a christian life. 



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CHAPTER LV. 



NATURE SPRINGTIME. 



We travel from place to place and see the earth 
in many places in its once natural state. We can 
but only wonder at springtime, at the grandeur 
of beautiful forests and the streams gliding on- 
ward toward the rivers. We also see the beauti- 
ful flowers planted by God through the channels 
of nature. As I gather a bouquet I look at those 
flowers. How beautiful, how sweet the odor of 
perfume that nature has given them. I notice 
the great carpet nature has woven to cover its 
valleys, its hills. The large rocks and boulders I 
see at the edge of the forests. I notice the spring 
bubbling up out of the ground, the clear cold 
water, so sweet and refreshing it causes me to 
stop and watch the beauty in nature's spring. The 
beautiful flowers along the brink of the little 
stream that flows from the spring, and here you 
see the birds taking their morning dip, washing 
their plummage in the sparkling water. They 
also get the drink God has placed for their use. 
Here you catch their songs of melody, chanting 
their praises in their own way to the One that 
cares and looks after their needs. They build 
their nests and raise their little ones close by the 

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spring. And all nature seems to smile, the shy- 
creeping little squirrel is frollicking and jumping 
from tree to tree. 

My mind is occupied with deep thoughts. 
There is a sound of the russle of the leaves as the 
wind causes them to apparently sing a song of 
nature. I travel from the spring to the brook. 
Here I see the fish close to the shore. The finny 
tribes are enjoying a sunning. As I approach they 
dart out for the middle of the brook. I follow 
the brook's course. On both sides are beautiful 
flowers and trees, coming close to the ripples bor- 
dering the banks of the brooks. I sit down to 
rest and to admire the beauties of nature and the 
sweet perfume nature has scattered. As I sit 
alone and in silence, thinking of this beautiful 
place, the sound of the ripples singing lullabies 
as the water speeds on toward the river. After 
resting I retrace my steps homeward, taking a 
shorter way. Home at last, a little fatigued but 
greatly refreshed in mind, having seen and felt 
the glad sunshine of nature, visiting with a great 
many things of nature, and giving my mind a 
training in nature's great school. 



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CHAPTER LVI. 

WHAT WILL BECOME OF ME? 

How many people have asked themselves this 
question during their lives? Some ask this ques- 
tion referring to worldly affairs. Others ask this 
question referring to their spiritual existence. 
Some ask this question who have started a life of 
drunkenness and dissipation. Others ask this 
question referring to folly, and vice. It is often 
said, the world of today is not thinking of its 
future existence. But, my friend, they are think- 
ing of their destination, they are looking forward, 
and also remembering yesterday. They may have 
buried a fond mother yesterday. They may have 
wept over a departed husband, wife, brother or 
sister, having departed to the other side of life. 
Their thoughts are of these loved ones leaving 
them and taking flight, leaving this house of clay 
or bodily form and going to the spiritual realm. 
They are filled with thoughts of the time that is 
fast approaching when they too will be called to 
the other side of life. And this has a tendency to 
cause people to ask, what will become of me? We 
sometimes look backward, thinking of some de- 
parted loved one. What beautiful memories of 
their mind, and heart, and gentle manners. We 

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forget every ill-mannered thing they may have 
done, and some may think that gentle Christian 
manners are immortal robes worn by departed 
ones. 

The drunkard may ask himself, what will be- 
come of me? He can answer this question, or 
partially answer it,— if he does not turn in his 
ways, he will shorten his life; he will lose the 
respect of all friends; he will lose self-respect; he 
will find himself in the gutter ; he will fill a drunk- 
ard 's grave; he will lose his very soul, the soul 
that God created after his own image. The out- 
cast, also, asks, "What will become of me? I 
have no home, no friends, no one to encourage me 
and help me in beginning a better life. Everyone 
seems to turn a cold shoulder to my very exist- 
ence." There is one friend you can go to for 
comfort and cheer. Ask advice from the High 
Power, the ruler of all the universe, the king of 
kings and lord of lords. His teaching is, ask and 
ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find. Faith 
defies all earthly storms, or downfalls. Faith in 
the supreme ruler means sojourning in happiness. 
Faith is like a path traveled heavenward. It is 
to the weary and unfortunate an eternal flame of 
comfort. Faith is like a sunray penetrating into 
your soul. 

We have faith in a supreme God. When we 
see the green hills and valleys, the flowers burst- 
ing forth their buds into bloom, and flowers of 
every hue seeming to dance in the sunlight of 
springtime, the little leaves growing every day 

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into full development. None can dispute the 
gladness of springtime, and also the beauty of the 
verdant attire nature has given her, the warble of 
the birds in melody of happiness for the sunshine 
and the sweet perfume-ladened flowers. All na- 
ture seems to point to the Ruler of heaven and 
earth, welcoming the springtime with its many 
charms of beauty and grandeur. 

Man has had from the foundation of the earth 
apparently held some form of worship, and as 
time has advanced, the religious thoughts have 
changed. With the development of civilization 
our mode of worship seems to grow nearer to a 
perfect standard of Christian faith. The develop- 
ment of good moral thoughts has helped us to ad- 
vance in Christian light. Christian thoughts and 
Christian faith have taken us over many difficult 
places. It has given us that happinness and com- 
fort which cannot be purchased in the markets of 
this world. It is the gold mine of the soul. Chris- 
tian faith and Christianity teaches us to lay up 
treasures in heaven. Our thoughts, our charity, 
our faith, our hope, which aid all in their channels 
of life, are treasures laid up in heaven. Our real 
life is within the heart and mind. If we start the 
eternal flame of Christianity in our hearts, and 
keep it burning with love, kindness, charity, hope, 
we are living a life that grows in happiness, on 
this plain of life, and in the spiritual life beyond. 



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CHAPTER LVn. 

JUNE TIME. 

Oh, the lovely June time with its beautiful 
moonlight nights, night when mellow light floods 
the earth with gladness. The beautiful trees 
tower in the distance like phantoms of invisible 
worlds. June is the month of happiness in many 
ways. Lovers wander and stroll, whispering love 
and affection to one another. The moon looks 
down on them with apparently a smile of beauty. 
We hear the cricket chirp, and see the lightning 
bug flash his lights in the valleys and in the sha 
dows of trees. We stroll, feeling the sweet breath 
of nature, smelling the perfume of the flowers that 
have been placed here to gladden our hearts. We 
stroll on, our shoes damp from the dew-ladened 
grass, onward to the brook that is singing the 
song that is only familiar to nature. We pause 
on the grassy bank. We notice the beautiful pic- 
ture of nature in reality. Here we stand, reflect- 
ing. 

Fancies seem to flit like shadows. We seem to 
hear a hymn, sung by angels in the distant skies. 
The moon's pale golden light seems to paint 
visions of love and happiness. We feel that the 
angels above are whispering to one another, 

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whispering and chanting praises to the eternal 
power behind all creation. We think of the tid- 
ings of joy someone is receiving this beautiful 
moonlight evening. We also think of the many 
that are living a life close to the beauties of this 
moonlight evening. We think of the life of love 
that has been given to us by the divine teacher, 
the teacher that taught people on the shores of 
Galilee, the teacher that taught on the tops of 
mountains, and in the valleys fair. We can pic- 
ture the patience, the sympathy, He extended to 
the world, the good deeds of kindness He had for 
the people in general, the never-tiring ambition to 
raise the standard of religious worship from idols 
of wood and stone to the spirit of all eternity, 
whose home is in the eternal heavens. 



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CHAPTER LVIIL 

GOOD MANNERS AND GOOD THOUGHTS. 

Good manners are a gift given to mankind to 
make use of and develop. Courtesy toward your 
your neighbors or friends shows one of the high 
points of civilization. In conversation clothe 
your words in thoughts of an elevating nature. 
To drift far away from slang and its use is to do 
yourself and friends justice. 

We grant that the idle talker says a lot, but it 
means very little. It is not always the person 
that does the most talking that does the most ef- 
fective work. If you desire information, let others 
talk and you listen. If we stop to think, we will 
find that some of our greatest people were people 
that talked very little, but when they did talk, it 
meant something. Good manners are the founda- 
tion of good principles. Let us build a founda- 
tion that will stand the storms of life and shine 
forth like a lighthouse on the sea of humanity. 
Good manners and good thoughts are as staple as 
the heavens above. They are guide-posts that 
lead to grand and noble purposes. Good man- 
ners and good thoughts are like vessels sailing 
upon smooth seas. They can see their destination 
and have no fear of the rough and angry sea. 

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Their captain has control over the seas as well as 
the vessel. Good manners and good thoughts are 
the watchword of the angels. . They are clothed 
in the immortal robes of good thoughts, and in the 
fashions of eternity. Good manners and good 
thoughts are impulses of the inner man or soul, 
teaching us to do deeds of kindness and charity. 
Good manners and good thoughts are like minds 
wearing spiritual garments. They are clothed in 
visions of light. 

Good manners and good thoughts are rare 
treasures in the storehouse of the mind. Good 
manners unlock the storehouse and scatter good 
thoughts in every direction, that these may be- 
come rooted in the hearts of everyone and branch 
out into grand and noble pursuits of life. Good 
manners and good thoughts are like the flowers of 
springtime bursting their buds into bloom. Their 
beauty causes us to think of the many lives that 
should follow the example of the flowers, causing 
good thoughts to bloom in their hearts that their 
homes might be homes of gladness and happiness, 
their companions feeling the power of happiness 
and contentment. When people embark upon the 
matrimonial sea of life, they should allow good 
thoughts and manners to guide their actions 
toward each other and help them kindle the fires 
of affection that will burn and blaze in their 
hearts, allowing only love, friendship and good 
thoughts to exist. Good manners and good 
thoughts are really the foundation of our exist- 
ence. Take good thoughts out of our life and 

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what have we left? We would be traveling, you 
might say, in darkness. We would be living a 
life of dread and discontent. We would be a liv- 
ing mass of wrecked humanity. We would see 
all the bad in life, and could see no good. We 
would feel alone and destitute. We would feel 
that the sunshine of our soul was no longer with 
us. 

Good manners and good thoughts are a science. 
They prompt the mind to study itself, and to be- 
come familiar with human nature in its many 
forms. Good thoughts teach us to analyze our 
mental functions, and the phenomena of thought, 
and mental emotion. Good manners and thoughts 
are closely related to each other. Take away 
either in public and social gatherings and you 
have lost the interest that should exist. Good 
manners and good thoughts are jewels worn by 
the soul. They are treasures that are not in the 
stores of vanity. They are jewels and pearls of 
great price. As far as money is concerned, their 
value rises above the money and the wealth of this 
material world. We sometimes find jewels of this 
kind in the hearts of poverty-stricken people. 
Good thoughts are the stepping-stones to a life of 
usefulness, — a life of honor and respect to the 
Ruler of the universe. 



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CHAPTER LIX. 

COURTESY AND PATIENCE. 

Courtesy is an investment. In business careers 
it is a habit that is classified as a business-getter. 
It is always a good policy to be courteous to your 
customer and to your prospective customers, as 
this has a bearing upon the success of your busi- 
ness. If you have a clerk that is not courteous 
and patient with your trade you had best take 
steps toward his or her removal, and that as soon 
as possible. Because, if not, your trade will re- 
move itself. There is no better way to increase 
your trade or advance it than to use courtesy and 
patience in dealings with your customers. Lack 
of courtesy has lost a great many firms thousands 
of dollars. We have a great many classes that 
are using their ambition and thought in evolving 
plans for greater courtesy in business. 

One class of people hold a certain view of life, 
and are working for a certain development. They 
are very courteous with their fellowmen, in all 
transactions, and they like to be seen and known 
for what they really are. They build their hap- 
piness upon true principles that should govern 
the life of all mankind. They like courtesy. This 
word, if used with sincerity, draws us nearer to- 
gether in the great field of life. It causes us to 

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realize that courtesy used in this life of surging 
humanity is the backbone of progression, not only 
in business transactions but also in religious 
forms. Courtesy and patience broaden the path- 
way that leads to everlasting joys. It broadens 
our views and teaches us to live a life of sincerity 
toward ourselves and fellow brother. Courtesy 
and patience teach us that the real happiness of 
life is not that which we can grasp in our hands, — 
it is the good thoughts we can hold in our hearts. 



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THE LITTLE GREEN COLORED SALOON 



CHAPTER I. 

THE LITTLE GREEN COLORED SALOON. 

Jack Harvey, B. Dougherty, Joe Delee and Mc- 
Call were in the little green colored saloon talk- 
ing and visiting in a social way, talking over some 
of their previous meetings on the beautiful lake, 
located in a westerly direction, a distance of 
some ten miles. McCarty, the proprietor, a large, 
portly man, was busy looking over his accounts of 
the previous day. Oscar Livingston was busy 
polishing the glassware and making things look 
as tidy as could be expected of a place in a west- 
ern frontier town of rough element. In the rear 
of this building there was a garden, called Devil 's 
Paradise. It was enclosed, seven feet high, with 
a tight-board fence. It covered about a quarter 
of an acre and had many beautiful trees scattered 
promiscuously, answering in summertime for 
shade. A few rude benches and seats were under 
trees, affecting in all a solitary and picturesque 
place, as far as nature was concerned. 

There is a city of about fifteen thousand inhabi- 
tants some eight miles distant from Devil's Para- 
dise. The rough element of this city would con- 
congregate at Devil's Paradise at evening time 
to drink and dissipate, to indulge in the follies of 

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intemperance and vice, believing they are living a 
life of great gaiety and happiness. Many mothers 
and fathers spent sleepless nights worrying over 
the absence of sons and daughters. In a corner 
of the garden was a dance platform, and this gar- 
den called Devil's Paradise was lit up with out- 
door lights in a very dim way, giving it a true 
significance of its name. The fame of this place 
as a tough resort spread to other adjoining towns, 
and young people would come, as sometimes cur- 
iosity-seekers do, in search of some new adven- 
ture. 

It is now about four o'clock in the afternoon. 
The four that had been chatting sociably, pre- 
pare to go to their respective homes. Going to 
the bar they order their favorite beverage and 
are talking of returning that evening to Devil's 
Paradise. They agreed that they would all be 
over that evening. 

It is now evening. Devil's Paradise is lit up 
with those dim lights. If you should peak through 
the fence, your imaginary fancy could picture 
devils in all corners, dancing in delight, thinking 
it was very near the hour in which they shall have 
an opportunity to prey upon innocent captors. 
Your imagination would behold large serpents 
crouching in corners. You imagine you see them 
encircling their coils about some innocent girl or 
some young man, drawing them closer to the 
precipice, ready to push them headlong into the 
depths of hell. You can imagine you hear their 

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cries for help as they sink beyond human aid. 
You imagine the scornful smile of the devil as he 
sends them over the precipice of eternity to min- 
gle with all uncleanness and all filthy spirits in 
the recesses of hell. 

The side door is now ready to open to all people 
visiting places of this kind. Upon this particu- 
lar evening there seems to be an unusually large 
crowd. You see them seated under the trees and 
on the benches and chairs, and close to the dance 
platform. The music starts. The floor of the 
dance platform is soon filled with a seemingly 
happy throng. The waltz is the first dance. The 
whirling seems to fill their minds with an over- 
whelming joy. After the first dance they have a 
chance to procure refreshments of almost every 
kind. The floors are kept filled until about four 
o 'clock in the morning. 

The four that participated in the social chat 
were there. They were using an unusual amount 
of stimulating beverages, and after one of the 
dances there was a quarrel between Dougherty 
and Jack Harvey. Their hasty words caused 
blows, and in a rage Dougherty drew a knife and 
plunged it into Jack's breast. Jack fell uncon- 
scious to the ground. The gaiety of the dance 
turned into silence, when they comprehended it 
was a death scene that was being enacted. Jack 
lay there, his life blood streaming from his 
wound with great rapidity. He finally passed to 
the great beyond without regaining conscious- 
ness. Dougherty, grasping the situation and see- 

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mg what he had done, made a dash for the door, 
opened it, and was soon lost to sight. The danc- 
ing place was abandoned for the night. The last 
scene in DeviPs Paradise was the corpse of one 
that had taken part in the seeming gaiety of the 
evening. A cloth was thrown over his upturned 
face, portraying the ghastly sight in the dim 
lights of the place called DeviPs Paradise. Au- 
thorities of the law were summoned and Jack was 
taken home to his wife. Think of the sorrow of 
the wife and little girl. Think of the piteous 
cries of agony, refusing to be comforted, realizing 
they have no chance of giving him the last token 
of love before he left this world forever, no more 
to return. And think of the feelings of the 
mother who had reared him in kindness, 
teaching him to travel in a just and noble 
way; training him in his boyhood days to remem- 
ber his Creator and the teachings of the divine 
spirit of God; praying that he would travel 
through life in love and purity, shunning evil 
temptations that surrounds and blights our fu- 
ture existence. 

After laying the remains of Jack Harvey in the 
little cemetery on the hill, a cloud of sadness hov- 
ered over the little family. The wife refused to 
be comforted, and two weeks later she too passed 
to the other side of life. Her last words were, 
1 ' Dear Jack. ' ' The little girl is left alone in the 
world. Think of the tender heart of a child in 
sorrowing thoughts, alone in this world, no fath- 

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er, no mother to guide her and give her the fond 
affection she so ranch craved and needed. 

Lncile. for that was her name, was given a home 
with her grandmother, and the kindness that was 
bestowed on her helped to drive away those lone- 
some thoughts of being alone in this world. 



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CHAPTER II. 



DOUGHERTY'S FLIGHT. 



We will now try to learn what became of Bill 
Dougherty after leaving Devil 's Paradise. He 
had made his way to the dense timber. Think- 
ing that detectives would soon be after him, he 
stayed in the timber and thinly settled portions of 
the state. But he soon tired of seclusion and the 
visions that haunted him night and day. He 
could see Jack Harvey in his dreams. He imag- 
ined he could see him after him all the time, day 
and night. He imagined he could see him sitting 
on rocks waiting for him. He imagined he could 
see him in the tops of trees, and his fright became 
something terrible. He could not sleep, he could 
not eat, and finally one day gave himself up to 
the law as the murderer of Jack Harvey. Bill 
Dougherty was given a life sentence as a mur- 
derer. His mother and father were very sorrow- 
ful over the son that had strayed from the teach- 
ings they had impressed his mind with in boyhood 
days. They were grieved that such places as 
Devil's Paradise were permitted to exist, to ruin 
and blight lives that might have been lives of 
purity and nobility. 



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CHAPTER III. 

DINNIS MCCARTHY'S BUSINESS. 

Dennis McCarty's place of business, Devil's 
Paradise, lost its popularity as a place of gaiety 
after that fatal night of Jack Harvey's murder. 
It had turned into a place of horror. The place 
that was once frequented by people was now 
shunned with fear and horror. There was a dread 
within all even in passing Devil's Paradise. Mc- 
Carthy finally left the little green front saloon, 
and Devil's Paradise is now a place that time has 
reduced to a desolate, wrecked building, looked 
upon and pointed at with the finger of scorn. Re- 
membering the desolation the place had caused, 
the thought ran through McCarty's and Living- 
ston's minds of the place they had been running 
in disobedience to the laws of God and man, caus- 
ing through the beverages they sold, unhappiness 
to exist in every home of those frequenting their 
place. They also thought of the wealth they had 
gained, it being gained by the lives and from the 
downfall of innocent people. They could realize 
their beverages caused murders, suicides, deser- 
tions in homes, and all manner of sorrow and 
angony, — and the sight of that last night of 
Devil's Paradise, Jack Harvey! 

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The vision ran through their mind. The scene 
seemed to haunt them. Every now and then they 
imagined they could again see his upturned face, 
his eyes wide open, and they seemd to hear the 
groans of agony, his pleadings to see his wife and 
his little daughter Lucile, and then, the silence of 
death, with its solitude and loneliness would creep 
over them causing their bodies to shake with emo- 
tional terror. McCarty and Livingston were 
reared in their boyhood days to seek good and 
noble pursuits, to shun company that mingled with 
shame. They were taught the right way to live, 
to lead a life of usefulness. But they had strayed 
from the life their parents had taught them. Now 
they were resolving to turn their thought back to 
the life they were taught at home, to make life 
worth living, being in harmony with everything 
of a pure and noble nature, and condemning 
everything vile and degrading. Talking over 
past relations as promoters of vice, they made up 
their minds to work for the upliftment of human 
ity, trying to save some of the many souls that 
were drifting into the depths of everlasting pun- 
ishment, and to point out to them the road that 
leads to everlasting joy. McCarty and Livingston 
took up ministerial and evangelistic work, meet- 
ing with great success in causing people to see 
and comprehend the good resulting from a life of 
Christian helpfulness. They taught the love we 
should have for one another, to make each day 
seem brighter to ourselves and our companions 
on this plane of life, — helping them to understand 

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that this life is like unto a vapor that passeth 
away, — teaching them that they should strive to 
gain a life everlasting in the heavens, made with- 
out hands, where happiness reigns in sincerity to 
a supreme power in everlastnig existence. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



McCALL AND DE LEE. 



We will now turn our thoughts to McCall and 
De Lee. One week later they talked of making a 
trip in a southerly direction. A little over a week 
from the time of the tragedy at Devil's Paradise, 
they boarded a train taking a southerly direction. 
They were both single men and had their future to 
to develop. In Upland, a small town on the fron- 
tier of Texas, they were nicely settled in a hotel 
after their long journey, and were enjoying com- 
fort and quietude in the office of the hotel. Peo- 
ple were surging back and forth. Among thm 
was a tall man wearing a full beard and attired 
in a suit of black, who presently sat down beside 
McCall and DeLee. From his appearance the 
new guest seemed to be a missionary or minister. 
! ! My friends, ' ' said the stranger, i ' are you travel- 
ing ?" Their reply was, "Yes, sir." "What 
part of the country do you come from? Arizona? 
Did you young men ever have your head's ex- 
amined?" "Why should we have our heads ex- 
amined?" asked DeLee. "I see you do not un- 
derstand my meaning," said the gentleman that 
had the appearance of a minister. * i I am a phre- 
nologist. " " Oh, yes, I understand, ' ' said DeLee. 

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"I examine heads, describing the character and 
prominent faculties of the brain," went on the 
new arrival. "For instance, I can readily tell in 
a scientific way your leading faculties and the 
faculties you should develop, telling you the busi- 
ness you are most likely to make a success of." 
4 ' I would like to know, ' ' said DeLee, becoming in- 
terested. "My terms for an ordinary examina- 
tion are fifty cents, but marking by chart is one 
dollar. A dollar spent in this way may mean a 
saving of hundreds of dollars to you." Both 
McCall and DeLee were short of money but DeLee 
concluded he would spend fifty cents in having his 
head' read. kk You can remember my reading and 
mark it down yourself afterward," said the phre- 
nologist. "So I can," replied DeLee." Sit right 
over in this chair," said the professor." "Am I 
to be read publicly f ' ' asked DeLee. "I don't just 
like the idea of having everyone hear about me." 
"You do not have to fear anything offensive, as I 
see you have a very good head. ' ' DeLee gave his 
consent, upon this assurance. 

The professor assumed an attitude of a speaker 
and commenced. "My young man, the measure- 
ment of your head in circumference is twenty-two 
and one-half inches. You have a mental tem- 
perament that embraces all the nervous system, 
giving mental emotion. Through the ability to 
take on education and mental culture, your first 
faculty is imitativeness. It will be proper for me 
to explain the different degrees of markings. 
They run from one to seven, seven being the high- 

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est marking. For imitativeness, a regard for the 
opposite sex, your marking would be four. You 
admire them, but you do not love them. Your 
second faculty is conjugality, located below the 
occipital bone. It means a love to settle down 
and take to yourself a companion for life. Your 
marking will be four, and only moderately. 
Phylopragenativeness, love of pets and offsprings, 
is four and one-half. Some pets you admire. 
For friendship your marking would be five. You 
admire friends and friendly society. For inhabi- 
tiveness your marking is four and one-half. You 
are very patriotic, having a love for home, but 
grieve but little upon leaving it. For continuity 
your marking is four. You are rather change- 
able. Yivativeness; you are a person that loves 
life, and existence you dread annihiliation. Is 
four and one-half. For combativeness your mark- 
ing is five. You are rather quick tempered. On 
the impulse of the moment you would be fairly 
good in debating subjects. For destructiveness 
your marking is five. You do not like to see 
things torn down and layed to waste. Alimen- 
tiveness is subdivided into two classes, one for 
solid foods the other for liquids. Your marking- 
is five. You would do well on a vessel on water. 
For acquisitiveness to acquire wealth and knowl- 
edge your marking is five. You have a great de- 
sire to accumulate wealth. Secretiveness, to keep 
secrets, is five and one-half. You can keep se- 
crets but you are not cunning. For cautiousness 
your marking is five. You are very cautious in 

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your dealings. Approbativeness. fashion, is five 
and one-half. Yon admire fine clothes and fash- 
ionable society. 

• • Self-esteem, fairly high, five and one-half. 
Yon are a little conceited. Yon like to command, 
yet yon are not haughty. Firmness: yon shonld 
develop this faculty, it now being four and one- 
half. For conscientionsness. yonr marking is five. 
Yon are very careful not to do anything wrong. 
For hope yonr marking is five and one-half. Yon 
are a little speculative. Yon like to take chances 
with the hope of winning ont. For spirituality 
yonr marking is four and one-half. Yon have 
a great belief in a snpreme spirit and admire 
Christianity. For veneration yonr marking is 
five. Yon have great respect for old age or any- 
thing of a supreme nature. For benevolence 
yonr marking is five. Yon are freehearted, if in 
a cause for a needy purpose. For eonstruetive- 
ness yonr marking is five and one-half. Yon have 
a great desire to handle tools. Yon might make 



r- 



good as a foreman. For ideality your marking is 
five. Yon love to see things kept in good or an 
ideal shape. 

' ' The marking for sublimity is five. Yon like 
to behold grandenr. beautiful pictures, and paint- 
ings of sublime work. For imitation yonr mark- 
ing is four and one-half. Yon are quite a mimic 
but not successfully so. Yonr 1 mirthfnlness mark- 
ing is five. Yon enjoy gaiety and laughter, and 
like cheerful society. For individuality yonr 
marking is four. Yon do not remember faces very 

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well, but this is a matter you can develop. For 
form your marking is four. You do not remem- 
ber forms of things in your mind. For size your 
marking is four. You remember sizes of articles 
just fairly well. For weight your marking is four. 
You might ride a bicycle well, but you would 
never make an aeroplane ascension. For color 
your marking is four and one-half, and you are a 
fairly good judge of colors. For order your mark- 
ing is five. You like to see things kept in good 
shape. For calculation your marking is four and 
one-half. You are fairly good in mathematics. 
For locality your marking is four. You can re- 
member places you have seen fairly well. For 
eventuality your marking is three and one-half. 
You rememberance of dates is not very good. 
Your time marking is four. You are just fairly 
good at keeping time in music. For tune your 
marking is five and one-half. You have a correct 
musical ear but have not developed it. 

"For language your marking is five. You can 
command good language. For comparativeness 
your marking is four and one-half. You can com- 
pare fairly well. Your casuality marking* is five. 
You like to know the cause and effect of different 
pursuits of life. For human nature your marking 
is live. You can judge persons and their disposi- 
tions well. Your agreeableness marking is five 
and one-half. You can get along easily with 
everybody. 

"Now, this is the conclusion of your reading 
and if you can remember it and write it down on 

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paper you will do remarkably well. That makes 
me recall, I said I would tell you what you are 
best adapted for. The business you should fol- 
low, according to your markings is that of con- 
tracting in some mechanical business. ' ' 

Now the phrenologist was a busy person. Quite 
a number that had sat in silence listening to his 
work as a phrenologist, became personally inter- 
ested in his science. The fact occurred to them 
that they were missing a grand opportunity by 
not getting a scientific reading, as the price was 
so reasonable. And he had many that wished a 
reading. Some applicants took charts with read- 
ings, which amounted to one dollar. The phre- 
nologist has a large lady to read next. We will 
leave this scene. 



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CHAPTER V. 



LITTLE LUCILE. 



We will now go back to little Lucile, who is 
stopping with her grandmother. As time went 
on the memories of that terrible shock, caused by 
her father's untimely end, and the circumstances 
that caused her mother's death, were still fresh 
in her mind. Time had helped to turn her mind 
to different channels, the kindness she received 
from her grandparents caused her to turn her 
mind toward educational lines. She took advan- 
tage of every opportunity in the line of gaining 
an education. And in school and in church so- 
cieties everyone took a sincere interest in helping 
her in every way possible. Her sad expression 
had changed to sweet smiles for all her compan- 
ions, her loving disposition made her the favorite 
of the neighborhood, and consequently she was 
loved by all and was always remembered in every 
home in that vicinity. 

Lucile is now fifteen years old. She has a love- 
ly voice, and her singing is declared wonderful. 
She likes to stroll in the forests and behold the 
grandeur of nature, looking at the beautiful trees 
that are clothed in numberless leaves, sometimes 
plucking some that hang closest to her head, as 

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she passes by. And she likes to stroll, gathering 
bouquets from nature's flower garden, holding 
them first to her nose and then pressing them 
close to her heart. She admires the beautiful 
birds hopping and chirping in the tree tops, seem- 
ing to sing songs in perfect harmony with the 
glad sunshine, and nature's beautiful landscape 
of picturesque beauty. She sees also the gray 
squirred frollicking in the trees, bounding from 
one tree to another, and all happiness seems to 
reign in song and in action. This particular day 
she is under a spell of thought, and gazing up- 
ward, she strolled a long distance. As sunset 
came with its reddening hue, deepening into twi- 
light, she has forgotten the way home. Lucile 
was very much perplexed and could not recall the 
path she had taken. She had taken the wrong 
path and was hurrying along thinking she would 
soon come out of the forest. But alas, she was 
going in the opposite direction. She could see a 
cloud drifting over the skies and hear sharp re- 
ports of thunder in the distance. It was now 
growing dusk. On she went and finally she came 
to an opening which was very hilly. Looking 
around she saw plainly she had taken the wrong 
direction and was lost. 

What should she do? The storm was coming 
upon her, the lightning was flashing and the roar- 
ing of the wind filled her heart with fear. As 
she wondered what she was to do, she spied some- 
thing that looked like a hut, and she hastened 
toward it thinking she could at least secure shel- 

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ter from the approaching storm, which was ready 
to break upon her at any moment. At last she 
arrived at the hut. She could see by the flashes 
of lightning that it had a door, and opening the 
door she found it to be unoccupied. She could 
discern a small lamp on a shelf and a matchbox 
hanging on the wall beside it. She rushed in and 
lighted the lamp, closing the door. She had no 
sooner closed the door than the storm struck with 
all its fury. The wind made a whistling, roaring 
sound and she could hear the swallows and the 
owls as they screeched while hunting for a place 
of shelter and safety. 

Finally the wind abated and the rain came in 
torrents. Even the hut soon had a stream of 
water running across its floor. The storm soon 
settled down to a quiet rain and Lucile thought 
she would look about her lodging place. Her in- 
vestigations resulted in the finding of a bed in one 
corner of the room. She also discovered a small 
stove with wood ready for a fire. There was also 
a cupboard with a few dishes, crackers, and a 
small supply of food. 

She started a fire and began to felt quite com- 
fortable. Feeling a little hungry she prepared a 
meal, and had bacon and crackers as a lunch. 
These tasted very good considering the solitude of 
her surroundings. 

The rain had turned into a light slow fall, ac- 
companied by a terrible darkness. The clouds 
seemed to hover all over the canopy of heaven. 
Lucile became tired and weary, looking longingly 

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at the bed. Finally she secured the door with its 
wooden bolt, and turning the light down a little, 
prepared to sleep. Thoughts of the seriousness 
of her situation, the anxious grandparents at 
home, disturbed her. What would they think of 
her not returning home? It was some little time 
before she could settle down. She did not neglect 
her evening prayer, the prayer her mother had 
taught her. Kneeling at her mother's knee with 
her hands stretched upward and clasped together, 
and then, always, a good-night kiss; how this had 
drawn her nearer to her mother's love, to the 
mother that had given up the battle of life and 
had gone to her eternal home. 

In the spiritual abode her thoughts strayed far 
beyond the hut she now occupied. She seemed 
almost to feel her mother's protecting arms about 
her. She seemed to feel that good-night kiss of 
fond affection. She seemed to hear her say, 
"Lucile, my darling, be good and true, and I will 
always be with you." 

The hut she was occupying belonged to a sheep 
herder who had that day taken his sheep to mar- 
ket. It was a very lonesome place. That night 
Lucile had many happy dreams, however. She 
dreamed they were in a nice home, the mother and 
father, walking hand in hand with them, and 
each had a beautiful bouquet of white roses. She 
dreamed they were in a nice home, the mother and 
father so happy and loving toward one another. 

Next morning the town of Buxton was anxious, 
indeed, for Lucile Harvey's whereabout. Scores 

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of people were engaged in searching for her. 
About twelve o'clock they found the hut and Lu- 
cile. She had not tried to find her way home, but 
had stayed hoping someone might happen along 
that way, in which event she could send word, or 
they might be able to guide her home. She was 
a very happy child when she got back to her 
grandmother's home, although her dreams had 
been very happy ones. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

JOHN McCALL AND JOE DE LEE. 

We will now follow John McCall and Joe Delee. 
They stayed one week at the hotel in the town of 
Upland. They then departed, to locate in a town 
abont one hundred miles distant. Being out of 
money they looked for employment, McCall tak- 
ing work on a farm while Joe went to work in 
town, driving an automobile truck. Time had 
severed the company of the two young men. At 
the end of eight months McCall had saved quite a 
good stake and thought he would return to his 
boyhood home. He tried to urge Joe DeLee to go 
with him. but Joe refused to leave the place he 
had become acquainted and satisfied with. So 
they parted, little expected they would never 
meet again. McCall boarded a train that was to 
take him to Buxton, Arizona. The train sped on 
and John's thoughts were of the loved ones he 
soon would meet. 

But, alas, there was a train-wreck and some 
were killed. John McCall was among those to 
meet death. A broken rail caused the wreck, the 
train being throw from the track, and rolling 
down a steep embankment. His remains were 
sent to his parents and burial took place in the lit- 

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tie cemetry on the hill. The family was thrown 
into deep sorrow upon losing a son whose life 
might have been in time an example of usefulness, 
and a joy to his fond parents. They erected a 
monument at the head of the newly made grave. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

DORIS DALE. 

Some six months later DeLee became attracted 
to a beautiful girl who had come from San Fran- 
cisco to visit her aunt. Their attachment for 
each other broadened into love. As they strolled 
hand in hand along the small brook that ran 
through a corner of the meadow near her home, 
they seemed to hear the brook's ripples singing 
songs of happiness, and the chorus seemed to 
whisper the melody of the two lovers strolling in 
the moonlight. Almost every evening their had 
their walk. Sometimes as they strolled, they 
would watch the reflections of the sun as it hid 
itself in the horizon. Then the twilight would 
come with its many fancies and sounds. The 
cricket chirped and the whip-poor-will sounded 
his shrill notes telling us evening had come. The 
moon climbs higher into view, showing us a pic- 
ture of nature of the highest and most beautiful 
type. 

It was on one of these beautiful evenings that 
Joe DeLee, his heart pounding with emotional 
love for Doris Dale, for that was the young lady's 
name, asked her to become his wife, helping him 
share in the happiness of companionship through 

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life. Doris, with her heart filled with love for 
him who carried all her joy and happiness in his 
destiny, accepted the love and affection he of- 
fered her, and they sealed the engagement. Joe 
placed a ring upon her finger with a kiss accom- 
panying it as a token of trust, as they believed 
the engagement ceremony was witnessed only by 
the moon. But not so, the great Supreme Ruler 
of the universe was a witness to this transaction 
of love. And as they strolled homeward the moon 
seemed to shine brighter on them and smile and 
said good-night, fair people, good-night. 

The next day Joe DeLee received a message to 
hasten to his mother's bed-side. Packing his 
grip hurriedly, he then sought Doris and told her 
of his message. Kissing her good-bye he hurried 
to the train, arriving just in time to procure a 
ticket. The train pulled out and as it sped along 
Joe's mind dwelling fondly upon the one he is 
leaving behind. — the one that seems all in this 
world to him. Now he is thinking of the beloved 
mother that had reared him in his childhood, and 
taught him, and prayed for him, that he might 
lead a true and noble life, keeping far away from 
the slipping stones of temptation, and that he 
could grow to manhood an example of usefulness 
and nobility. On sped the train. It would soon 
arrive at the town of his birth. He will soon be 
by his mother's bed-side. 

The train pulls into the small town of Buxton. 
Joe alights on the old wooden platform and makes 
his way to his boyhood home. Entering the door 

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he is greeted by his father, and going to his moth- 
er *s bedside, she threw her arms around him and 
gave him the caress that she nsed to give him in 
his boyhood days, tears of joy streamed down her 
wrinkled face. She kept saying, " Joe, my boy." 
Oh, the happiness of this mother at seeing her son 
and to feel the embrace of the child she so loved! 
The excitement caused the mother to grow worse 
apparently, and she was ordered to be left alone 
with the nurse for a time, that she might regain 
her composure. The next day she had grown a 
little better and the doctor said there was a chance 
of recovery. 

It had now been a week since Joe DeLee had 
come to his mother's bed-side. She was gaining 
strength slowly. He had had two letters from 
Doris. In the meantime Doris had a dispatch to 
come on the first train to her sister who was very 
low and not expected to live. Doris packed her 
belongings in haste, then wrote a letter to Joe tell- 
ing him of her coming trip to San Francisco, ow- 
ing to the illness of her sister, and also telling him 
of her love for him, expressing the hope that the 
time would soon come when they could be to- 
gether and share each others joys and sorrows. 

Joe received this letter in the morning and felt 
rather badly to think he could not bid her good- 
bye, and kiss her affectionately, whispering his 
love to her, pressing her to his heart, and stop the 
throbs of emotional feeling that seemed to now 
exist in his life. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 



DORIS ON HER WAY HOME. 



The train that Doris was to depart on, soon 
arrived and her aunt bid her good-bye, wishing 
her safety on her journey. She was soon on her 
way home, but it seemed she was leaving part of 
her home behind. The sad thoughts of leaving 
her love far behind, and the many changes time 
can make, even in lovers' vows. On sped the 
train in no way thoughtful of the joys or sor- 
rows of its many travelers. Finally her destina- 
tion was reached, the hack was waiting to drive 
her home. As the hack drove up to a nice home, 
Miss Doris alighted and went in. She was met 
by her mother. Inquiring after her sister, her 
mother replied, "Not any better.' r In about 
half an hour the family physician arrived and he 
reported the fever to have developed into small- 
pox. For the safety of the people he would be 
compelled to quarantine the house, allowing no 
one to go out or enter the place. He thought that 
vaccination would be the only way of avoiding the 
spreading of the disease. So the servants were 
vaccinated, also Doris and her mother. 

And they gave Lydia, for that was the name of 
Doris ' sister, the very best of care, watching over 

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her day and night until she was out of danger. 
She recovered very slowly, but proved herself a 
very patient girl, bearing her afflictions with a 
gentleness and a kindness that could not be for- 
gotten. After the sickness her face was left in 
good condition, scarcely a mark remaining to mar 
her beauty. 

It has now been thirty days since Doris returned 
home, and the quarantine is lifted. The family 
are once more at liberty to go and come at their 
pleasure. The pleasant summertime make the 
family feel disposed to take a pleasure ride into 
the country, and telling the coachman to make 
ready for a drive, the two sisters and mother be- 
gin preparations for the drive. It was not long 
until they were on their way, enjoying the per- 
fumed air arising from new mown hay and fields 
waving like a great sea of golden colored waves. 
All nature seemed to be happy, yet there was one 
on that family pleasure jaunt who was unhappy. 
Doris was thinking of the one in a faraway clime, 
the one she had strolled hand in hand with on 
many moonlight nights by the little brook. Her 
memories seem to fly to the loved one that had 
given her the ring and kiss as a token of his love. 
She wondered what he was doing at this very mo- 
ment. She wondered if the month they had been 
apart had caused any changes in him. Then she 
fell to thinking of the drive they were having, to 
an admiration of the fields of waving corn and 
the clumps of timber here and there that they 
were passing, the herds of cattle in the pasture 

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under large shady trees, and the flocks of sheep 
lying at leisure apparently enjoying the greatest 
gifts nature has to bestow. 

On they drove and presently they come to a 
forest scattered here and there with wild plum 
trees which are loaded with ripe fruit. The per- 
fume of the ripe plums was something sublime. 
They could not seem to resist the impulse to step 
from their carriage, gathering plums and having 
a merry time. After gather all they cared to, 
they enjoyed their lunch and made preparation 
for the return journey. Finally all was in readi- 
ness. They resumed their homeward drive and 
reached their destination just in time for the 
evening meal. They talked over the pleasant 
time they had on their day's outing and thought 
of repeating their trip. They were all a little 
tired, but the sunshine and elements of nature had 
done much for them, in a physical way. 



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CHAPTER IX. 



LUCILE RETURNS HOME. 



We will now visit Lucile Harvey after her ex- 
perience of being lost and staying all night in the 
lonely cabin. After staying with her grand- 
parents for a short time, she finished school in 
this small town and her grandparents began ar- 
ranging to send her to college. She is now pre- 
paring her wearing apparel. They send her to 
the University of Minnesota. She had arranged 
for her boarding place and selected her course of 
studies in advance. She makes rapid progress 
under the supervision of the advanced faculty, 
and soon feels happy and contented in her new 
environment. Here she has high thoughts of edu- 
cational pursuits. Here she has advantages that 
are second to none in many ways. In a healthy 
locality and with the moral cleanliness of her asso- 
ciates and the beautiful, picturesque and natural 
scenery of its park and lakes. And here we have 
the natural and beautiful falls of Minnehaha. In 
fact the whole vicinity is surrounded by natural 
lakes and beautiful parks that are a delight to all 
pleasure-seekers, and all those with tastes for 
the ideal and sublime. 

The university is located in a quiet portion of 

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the metropolis. It lias ideal street car service 
and many advantages, such as railroad accommo- 
dations, etc. It is the largest city in the state and 
the most prosperous and beautiful. 

Lucile makes wonderful progress in her studies. 
She takes up music, and is on the high road to a 
promising future, to advancement of high culture. 
Step by step she is climbing the ladder to fame, 
and her never tiring ambitions are the guiding 
and welcome thoughts of her existence. As time 
passes she learns to guard herself, selecting her 
companions, as a golden key to their character 
and individuality. 

Lucile is the picture of physical health and 
beauty. The secret of her beauty is, that she has 
respected the laws of health. She has glowing 
cheeks, bright lips, sparkling eyes, and glossy 
hair. The gift of beauty is a blessing that can be 
attained and preserved by living close to the laws 
of nature. While all persons cannot be beautiful 
they can at least be attractive and have charming 
ways. As the highest type of usefulness a person 
should know something of physical culture, learn- 
ing that activity, energy, motion and mental cul- 
ture are great factors in promoting health and 
beauty. 

Lucile has observed the real guides to physical 
health, happiness and beauty. Her innocence in 
looks can be compared with the rose. 

She is busy with her lessons in her room when 
a messenger startles her by bring in a telegram. 

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Hurriedly she opens the letter. It read, "Your 
grandfather died this morning very suddenly." 
Excitedly Lucile began preparations for the 
journey home. Arriving the next day she im- 
mediately sets about to bring cheerfulness into 
the home and life of her grandmother. She ra- 
diated such kindness that the grief-stricken 
grandmother felt the power of her presence. 

Lucile 's disposition was such as prompted her 
to cheer people in times of bereavement and sor- 
row. Finally, one week later, she began to think 
of her studies, and spoke to her grandmother 
about returning. Her grandmother felt grieved 
to think that she would leave her alone, but final- 
ly an idea presented itself. They would secure a 
place in the city and there live together. This 
plan was carried out, Lucile giving her aged 
grandmother all the thought and kindness within 
her power to bestow. 



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CHAPTER X. 

MARRIAGE OF DORIS AND JOE DE LEE. 

We will now go to Joe DeLee. His mother 
gained rapidly in strength and was soon able to 
come out into the sunshine and breathe once more 
the pure air, filled with nature's rare perfumes. 
Joe sojourned about one month. He had many 
letters from Doris. Then the time came when 
he told her that he would soon look for her at 
the aunt's home in Lano, Texas. September the 
fifteenth, upon which date she had agreed to re- 
turn, he was full of anxiety and apprehension lest 
some accident might befall her and their happi- 
ness be marred. 

Joe returned to the town where his position 
awaited him, all his acquaintances welcoming him 
back with a hearty glad hand. Soon he was pro- 
moted to salesman of the automobile concern and 
succeeded in closing many sales. As time went 
on, the date that Doris was to return drew closer. 
Finally Monday came, the day she was to meet 
the one she adored. As the train came thunder- 
ing into the depot Joe was on hand to meet Doris. 
Alighting from the train she is caressed by Joe. 
They went directly to his home, or rather, tempor- 

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ary home. In two weeks they are married, and 
procure a snug home of their own. 

They both recall the moonlight nights they 
spent strolling along the brook; especially that 
one night upon which Joe had sealed their en- 
gagement with a ring and a kiss. 



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CHAPTER XI. 



McCarthy and oscar livington. 

We will now return to McCarty and Oscar Liv- 
ingston. They have been holding revival meet- 
ings in the western states and have made quite a 
jump and are holding their next meeting in 
Texas. Their fame has reached out ahead of 
them. They generally stayed about two weeks 
in each town. McCarty delivered the sermons 
and Livingston did the singing. They have built 
a large place for the express purpose of holding 
their meetings, pertaining to religious and tem- 
perance lectures. The seating capacity is large. 

Livingston has formed the acquaintance of a 
Texas rancher's daughter. Her name is Leone 
Webb. They are always together. Their friend- 
ship has ripened into love for each other. They 
seem to thing only of one another's welfare. 
Many nice moonlight nights they took their au- 
tomobile and took a trip over the level plains of 
Texas, thinking of the happiness they enjoyed 
with each other. They have set the time that the 
matrimonial knot is to be tied and it is not long 
until they will be man and wife. Livingston's 
thoughts sometimes go back to the little green 
front saloon they had run in Buxton. But its 

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memories bring only sadness of thought and sad- 
ness of what had occurred in the Devil's Para- 
dise. He thinks of the happiness he has enjoyed, 
leaving a life of shame and taking up a work that 
has brought him contentment of mind and placed 
him in a position where he can look the whole 
world in the face in sincerity and justice. He has 
learned a lesson of truth and honor, learned that 
wealth connot purchase happiness. He has also 
learned that wealth gained in this way is a stain 
upon one's moral character. 

Leone Webb was a beautiful girl with golden 
hair and dark blue eyes, and her sunny disposi- 
tion made her an ideal companion. Her age was 
twenty and her education was very good. 

The day arrives in which they become man and 
wife. Dinnis McCarty was the one that pro- 
nounced them one. They took a trip to Scotland 
as their honeymoon. They sailed from New York 
to England, and thence on to Glasgow, Scotland. 
They were wished a happy trip from the ones at 
home. Their trip was to be quite extended as 
Oscar Livingston's father and mother lived in 
Glasgow. 

Dinnis McCarty also took a trip to his native 
home in Dublin, Ireland. 



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CHAPTER XII. 



LUCILE HARVEY'S MARRIAGE. 

We will now visit Lucile Harvey. She has 
finished her course at the university. Her grand- 
mother has been dead about a month, and she is 
feeling very lonesome, not having a relative in 
this world that she knows of. Her grandmother 
left her quite a large amount of wealth, this be- 
ing in the neighborhood of some ten thousand 
dollars. She is thinking of going to Germany and 
complete her study of music. She finally made 
up her mind to do this and prepared to get her 
business in such shape as would make the pro- 
posed trip possible. 

In the course of one month she was ready to 
depart. Her starting point was New York City. 
She arrived in New York and found suitable quar- 
ters for her short stay in that metropolis. She 
was attacked by a violent headache and chills. 
Medical aid was summoned but she grew worse, 
and within a week she was indeed in a very ser- 
ious condition, not realizing anything that trans- 
pired about her. She was passing through a 
siege of typhoid fever. The physician, a pleas 
ant young man, very kindly disposed toward his 
patient, and in every way did all that could be 

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done for Lucile. He stayed at her bed-side as 
much as possible and instructed the nurse in every 
detail, that this girl might be brought back to 
consciousness, and restored to health. Finally he 
succeeded in lowering her fever and she became 
conscious of her weakened condition. 

The young doctor seemed to take an extra 
amount of care of her in restoring her to health. 
As she began to gain in strength she began to ap- 
preciate the doctor and to desire his presence be- 
side her. She greatly admired the beautiful and 
kindly ways he had. She admired the beautiful 
smile that he always had. She admired the beau- 
tiful look, expressions coming into those dark 
eyes that seemed to cause her very soul to feel 
the gladness of their penetration. She also ad- 
mired that beautiful youthful face and those 
beautiful eyes that could show the very deepest 
of sympathy or could flash with the strongest of 
indignations. 

His frequent calls brought about further ac- 
quaintance, and as time went on her once beau- 
ful expression and ways came back to her. Her 
thoughts were now always of the young doctor. 
She could not separate him from her thoughts, if 
she tried to. His calls were quite often, and the 
gladness she expressed at having him with her 
was quite apparent. She longed for his com- 
pany. 

One day during a conversation he told her his 
father and mother were both dead. They had 
died when he was very small and his home had 

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since that time been with his uncle, who had edu- 
cated and cared for him. He took up the doctor's 
profession and was still making his home with 
his uncle, who was very kind to him. He also 
told her he never had known what it meant to feel 
a mother 's love. Lucile told him her sad story of 
the loss of both father and mother in her youth, 
and of her home being with grandparents. She 
told him of her educational career and of the re- 
cent death of her grandparents, and how they had 
left her alone in the world without relatives. 
Their conversation seemed to picture their lives 
in such a queer and similar way that they could 
only look at each other in astonishment and 
silence for a few moments. 

Presently the doctor, whose name was Ford, 
arose and said, "I have a call to make and must 
go." Approaching Lucile he stretched out his 
hand to say goodbye. She gave him her hand 
and tears came to her eyes, trickling down her 
cheeks, and as he went to the door he turned 
around and said, "God bless you and keep you in 
good health." She told him to call and see her 
again. She said, ' ' I have enjoyed your visit, and 
I should indeed like some friend upon whom I 
may unload my sorrows, and also my joys. I 
should like someone that can really sympathize 
with people that have never had the kindness of 
a mother or father to caress them in their arms, 
and say, 'My child,' and plant kisses upon their 
cheeks, and welcome them, as the nearest and 
dearest to them." 

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After Doctor Ford had gone Lucile thought of 
many things, but his face was ever pictured in 
her mind. She tried to think of other things, but 
the doctor's face, his beautiful eyes, seemed to 
stare her in the face. She wondered what it all 
meant. Could it be love? She could not con- 
tent herself with anything, only thoughts of him. 
She would walk to the door, thinking he might 
be coming, but not seeing him, she would shake 
off the thought for a moment. 

The doctor went to see his patent and then on 
home to his uncle. He too was greatly perturbed. 
His thoughts were full of Lucile Harvey, her 
beauty seemed to haunt his mind. He was rest- 
less and even his uncle noticed this restlessness 
and uneasiness. Thinking it might be the result 
of a difficult case he was contending with, he did 
not pass any remarks, however. 

The next day Doctor Ford came again to see 
Lucile. She met him at the door with her angelic 
smile of welcome, and invited him into the par- 
lor. He sat down on a settee and she sat beside 
him. They talked and passed many happy 
thoughts of how luck had thrown them into form- 
ing an acquaintance with each other. Lucile to 
entertain him went to the piano which was close 
by and played and sang some of the most beauti- 
ful songs he had heard. Afterward she resumed 
her place by his side and they visited and spent 
a full two hours in joy and happiness. 

Finally the doctor said, "I must go and visit a 
case that calls me at just a half hour from now." 

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Their acquaintance has turned their thoughts to 
friendship, and the doctor gave her his hand and 
he pressed a kiss on one of her hands, and bid 
her good-bye.' She followed him to the door and 
entreated him to come often, which he said he 
would. The doctor hurried to fill his appoint- 
ment and afterward went to his office to see if 
there were any other calls. There were two, 
which he immediately set out to see. After visit- 
ing both these places he was at liberty to reflect 
upon the happy visit he had had with Lucile 
Harvey. 

His thoughts flowed in beautiful channels. He 
thought of her beautiful disposition and the sun- 
shiny expression in her eyes. Her high talent in 
music made her an ideal in the mind of the doctor. 
His uncle was an aged man and had his own home. 
Doctor Ford was the only heir to this estate. They 
had a house-woman to look after their interests, 
and his uncle wished him to stay with him as long 
as he lived. He was now at the age of sixty-five. 
He had not yet learned of Doctor Ford's love for 
Lucile, and neither did Doctor Ford care to have 
him learn about it. 

Upon one bright sunshiny day Doctor Ford 
visited Lucile. She met him with love and cour- 
tesy, that she could no longer suppress. She asked 
him to be seated, and taking a seat by his side she 
told him she was very, very happy in his presence. 
It seemed to her she had someone that was dear 
to her. This day Doctor Ford asked Lucile Har- 

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vey to become his wife that they might blend 
their affections, that they might come into that 
close relation to one another, with love and cheer 
to fill their hearts with happiness. Lncile gave 
her consent and Doctor Ford placed a ring 
on her finger as a token of love, and a vow that 
they would always be true to each other in joys 
or in sorrows, in sunshine or clouds of depression. 

Doctor Ford said, "I must go," and placing his 
arms around her waist he planted a kiss upon her 
lips. She followed him to the door and gave him 
a good-bye hand shake and he was soon gone. The 
next day Doctor Ford was startled by his uncle 
being absent at the breakfast table, and the doc- 
tor hastened to his room. He found his uncle 
very sick, delirious and in a bad condition. The 
doctor gave him some medicine to quiet his nerves 
then went to procure another physician for the 
purpose of holding a consultation. Something 
must be done at once, as it is a paralytic stroke. 
The physicians finally decide to give treatment to 
offset the pain, but it proved to be of no use. He 
lingered along a few days and finally died. 

In his will all his property went to his nephew. 
Doctor Ford. Doctor Ford called upon Lucile 
to accompany him to his uncle's funeral. He was 
the only relative the old man had, and Lucile went 
with Doctor Ford, sharing his sorrows. Both of 
them were thinking that they were left alone in 
the world without relatives or without knowing 



anything about them. 



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After the funeral the doctor began looking after 
his uncle's business, or rather, his own business. 
He found his uncle had willed almost his entire 
estate to him with the exception of the house- 
woman, to whom he had left five thousand dol- 
lars. All the rest of the property was willed to 
the doctor. It consisted of the home valued at 
twenty thousand dollars and mortgages amount- 
ing to thirty thousand, and twenty thousand dol- 
lars in banks. After the will was probated the 
doctor took possession of the wealth he had been 
given. 

His visits upon Lucile became more frequent, 
as he had given his profession up temporarily. 
The doctor had the residence left him by his uncle 
entirely remodeled, improved upon in many ways, 
Lucile proving most helpful with her timely sug- 
gestions. The home was so changed that it be- 
came in all reality a picturesque palace. Its in- 
terior was something grand, with extra lighting, 
and with everything to make it beautiful. 

The day at last arrived for the wedding cere- 
mony, and they are married in their own home. 
Only a few friends of the doctor 's witness the cere- 
money. They were married by a minister, and 
after the wedding they talked of their lives, up 
from childhood days to manhood and womanhood, 
without the caresses of a fond mother. 

But now the knot of love and friendship as man 
and wife has been tied, and happiness reigns 
supreme. 



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